endangering
"endangering" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“endangering” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #26,079. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,079
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of putting someone or something in danger.
Corpus desk
Index EN-endangering · endangering · English
endangering · rank #26,079 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,079
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH emptying
Nearest frequency peer: emptying (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “endangering”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- earring
earring
73,926 corpus weight
- emptying
emptying
73,924 corpus weight
- endangering
endangering
73,922 corpus weight
- erroneously
erroneously
73,920 corpus weight
- Erwin
Erwin
73,919 corpus weight
- evaporation
evaporation
73,918 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “endangering” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | endangering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #26,079 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “endangering” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around endangering, anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,079 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of putting someone or something in danger.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for endangering, with forms such as "ednangering", "enadngering", and "endagnering". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is endangering, spelled E-N-D-A-N-G-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of putting someone or something in danger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how endangering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
First, as felony prosecutor, I prosecute high-level felonies including homicides; sexual assaults; child endangerings; shootings and other felonious assaults; and media cases.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ednangering
- enadngering
- endagnering
- endanegring
- endangeirng
- endangerign
- endangeringg
- endangerinng
- endangernig
- endangerring
- endanggering
- endangreing
- endanngering
- enddangering
- endnagering
- enndangering
- nedangering
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of endangering - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "endangering", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- 17 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #26,079 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "E" letter cohort. E–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.