fading
/ˈfeɪdɪŋ/
"fading" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fading” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,771. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,771
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of fade.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fading · fading · English
fading · rank #12,771 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,771
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH factual
Nearest frequency peer: factual (-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 “fading”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- exquisite
exquisite
87,232 corpus weight
- factual
factual
87,231 corpus weight
- fading
fading
87,230 corpus weight
- falsely
falsely
87,229 corpus weight
- famine
famine
87,228 corpus weight
- fares
fares
87,227 corpus weight
What this shows “fading” 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 | fading |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈfeɪdɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “fading”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around fading (IPA /ˈfeɪdɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,771 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of fade.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for fading, with forms such as "afding", "fadding", and "fadign". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fang", "faint", "fling", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 fading, spelled F-A-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of fade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fading appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
fading light; fading memory; fading reputation
With fading eyesight and reactions, the runs have dried up. That Mr Tendulkar has nonetheless kept his place in the national [cricket] side is a more dismal exemplum: of the impunity enjoyed by all India’s rich and powerful.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afding
- fadding
- fadign
- fadingg
- fadinng
- fadnig
- faidng
- fdaing
- ffading
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of fading - 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 "fading", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).