engrossing
/ɛnˈɡɹəʊsɪŋ/
"engrossing" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“engrossing” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #39,800. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,800
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Utterly consuming one's time and attention.
Corpus desk
Index EN-engrossing · engrossing · English
engrossing · rank #39,800 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,800
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH epithelium
Nearest frequency peer: epithelium (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “engrossing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Earp
Earp
60,207 corpus weight
- enabler
enabler
60,204 corpus weight
- engrossing
engrossing
60,201 corpus weight
- epithelium
epithelium
60,199 corpus weight
- ergonomics
ergonomics
60,198 corpus weight
- Eugenie
Eugenie
60,196 corpus weight
What this shows “engrossing” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | engrossing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ɛnˈɡɹəʊsɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #39,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “engrossing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around engrossing (IPA /ɛnˈɡɹəʊsɪŋ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,800 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Utterly consuming one's time and attention.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for engrossing, with forms such as "egnrossing", "enggrossing", and "engorssing". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is engrossing, spelled E-N-G-R-O-S-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Utterly consuming one's time and attention.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how engrossing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
an engrossing documentary
The good news about “The Silence” is that it’s engrossing and that, at 83, DeLillo’s syntax is as prickly as ever.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- egnrossing
- enggrossing
- engorssing
- engrosing
- engrosisng
- engrossign
- engrossingg
- engrossinng
- engrossnig
- engrrossing
- engrsosing
- enngrossing
- enrgossing
- negrossing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of engrossing - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "engrossing", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).