faltering
"faltering" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“faltering” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #41,119. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,119
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hesitant, halting
Corpus desk
Index EN-faltering · faltering · English
faltering · rank #41,119 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,119
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH faeces
Nearest frequency peer: faeces (-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 “faltering”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- epinephrine
epinephrine
58,891 corpus weight
- evens
evens
58,885 corpus weight
- faeces
faeces
58,883 corpus weight
- faltering
faltering
58,882 corpus weight
- fiver
fiver
58,877 corpus weight
- flabby
flabby
58,876 corpus weight
What this shows “faltering” 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 | faltering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #41,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “faltering”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around faltering, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #41,119 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "hesitant, halting".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for faltering, with forms such as "afltering", "faletring", and "falltering". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "filtering", "fastening", "fattening", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From falter + -ing. The correct English form is faltering, spelled F-A-L-T-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1hesitant, halting
Etymology
From falter + -ing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- afltering
- faletring
- falltering
- falteirng
- falterign
- falteringg
- falterinng
- falternig
- falterring
- faltreing
- fatlering
- ffaltering
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of faltering - 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 "faltering", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).