exposing
"exposing" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“exposing” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,890. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,890
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Leading to increased exposure.
Corpus desk
Index EN-exposing · exposing · English
exposing · rank #9,890 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,890
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH exempt
Nearest frequency peer: exempt (-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 “exposing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- exclude
exclude
90,113 corpus weight
- exempt
exempt
90,112 corpus weight
- exposing
exposing
90,111 corpus weight
- faint
faint
90,110 corpus weight
- fertility
fertility
90,109 corpus weight
- FF
FF
90,108 corpus weight
What this shows “exposing” 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 | exposing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “exposing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around exposing, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,890 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Leading to increased exposure.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for exposing, with forms such as "epxosing", "exopsing", and "expoisng". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "excusing", "exploring", "exploding", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is exposing, spelled E-X-P-O-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Leading to increased exposure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exposing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Notwithstanding the apparent facilities that are offered of success, the amusement of duck-shooting," says Dr. Sharpless, heretofore quoted, "is probably one of the most exposing to cold and wet; and those who undertake its enjoyment without a courage 'screwed to the sticking-point,' will soon discover that 'to one good a thousand ills oppose.' […]"
Leading and teaching on such a programme can feel very exposing – the programme is very public, the 'students' are articulate adults, they are also one's colleagues, and the subject matter of the course is also the means through which it is being taught – one's own teaching is very much on display.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- epxosing
- exopsing
- expoisng
- exposign
- exposingg
- exposinng
- exposnig
- expossing
- expposing
- expsoing
- exxposing
- xeposing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of exposing - 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 "exposing", 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).