escaping
/ɪsˈkeɪpɪŋ/
"escaping" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“escaping” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,687. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,687
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of one who escapes; an escape.
Corpus desk
Index EN-escaping · escaping · English
escaping · rank #10,687 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #10,687
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH Ethiopia
Nearest frequency peer: Ethiopia (+1 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 “escaping”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Emirates
Emirates
89,318 corpus weight
- Emmy
Emmy
89,317 corpus weight
- escaping
escaping
89,314 corpus weight
- Ethiopia
Ethiopia
89,313 corpus weight
- ethnicity
ethnicity
89,312 corpus weight
- eventual
eventual
89,311 corpus weight
What this shows “escaping” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | escaping |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɪsˈkeɪpɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “escaping”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around escaping (IPA /ɪsˈkeɪpɪŋ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,687 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for escaping, with forms such as "ecsaping", "esacping", and "escaipng". 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. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "escapism", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is escaping, spelled E-S-C-A-P-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who escapes; an escape.
- 2That which escapes or leaks out; an emission.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how escaping appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The faint, yet growing escapings of gas were in her nostrils as she slumped into a chair and began painfully to scrawl on the paper.
Loud rumblings in the bunkhouse that night awakened the punchers often, with many rude comments made about the gastronomical escapings of certain people.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsaping
- esacping
- escaipng
- escapign
- escapingg
- escapinng
- escapnig
- escapping
- esccaping
- escpaing
- esscaping
- secaping
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escaping - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "escaping", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).