exercising
/ˈɛksɚˌsaɪzɪŋ/
"exercising" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exercising” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,692. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,692
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of exercise
Corpus desk
Index EN-exercising · exercising · English
exercising · rank #10,692 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,692
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH excel
Nearest frequency peer: excel (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “exercising”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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89,312 corpus weight
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89,311 corpus weight
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89,310 corpus weight
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89,309 corpus weight
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89,308 corpus weight
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89,307 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “exercising” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exercising |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɛksɚˌsaɪzɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,692 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “exercising” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around exercising (IPA /ˈɛksɚˌsaɪzɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,692 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of exercise".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for exercising, with forms such as "eexrcising", "execrising", and "exerccising". 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. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is exercising, spelled E-X-E-R-C-I-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of exercise
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eexrcising
- execrising
- exerccising
- exerciisng
- exercisign
- exercisingg
- exercisinng
- exercisnig
- exercissing
- exercsiing
- exericsing
- exerrcising
- exrecising
- exxercising
- xeercising
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of exercising - 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
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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 (15 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- Usage frequency rank #10,692 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.