escorting
"escorting" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“escorting” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,263. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,263
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which someone is escorted; provision of an escort.
Corpus desk
Index EN-escorting · escorting · English
escorting · rank #29,263 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #29,263
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH Erich
Nearest frequency peer: Erich (-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 “escorting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- ephemeral
ephemeral
70,741 corpus weight
- eponymous
eponymous
70,740 corpus weight
- Erich
Erich
70,739 corpus weight
- escorting
escorting
70,738 corpus weight
- ethnographic
ethnographic
70,737 corpus weight
- Eurasian
Eurasian
70,736 corpus weight
What this shows “escorting” 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 | escorting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #29,263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “escorting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around escorting, anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,263 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act by which someone is escorted; provision of an escort.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for escorting, with forms such as "ecsorting", "esccorting", and "escoritng". 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, "exporting", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is escorting, spelled E-S-C-O-R-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which someone is escorted; provision of an escort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how escorting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The first sentence means that all escortings by officers in Saint Petersburg were escortings of ballerinas. The second sentence means that all escortings of ballerinas in Saint Petersburg were escortings by officers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecsorting
- esccorting
- escoritng
- escorrting
- escortign
- escortingg
- escortinng
- escortnig
- escortting
- escotring
- escroting
- esocrting
- esscorting
- secorting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of escorting - 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 "escorting", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).