festering
"festering" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“festering” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #42,131. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,131
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The condition of something that festers.
Corpus desk
Index EN-festering · festering · English
festering · rank #42,131 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,131
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Fibonacci
Nearest frequency peer: Fibonacci (+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 “festering”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- fabulously
fabulously
57,874 corpus weight
- faithless
faithless
57,873 corpus weight
- falsetto
falsetto
57,872 corpus weight
- festering
festering
57,870 corpus weight
- Fibonacci
Fibonacci
57,869 corpus weight
- firecracker
firecracker
57,867 corpus weight
What this shows “festering” 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 | festering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #42,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “festering”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around festering, anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,131 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The condition of something that festers.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for festering, with forms such as "efstering", "fesetring", and "fesstering". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "filtering", "fastening", "faltering", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 festering, spelled F-E-S-T-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The condition of something that festers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how festering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] discontent would creep in and breed festerings and mortifications in the New Moral World, or else decree its fate more rapidly by effecting its dissolution.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- efstering
- fesetring
- fesstering
- festeirng
- festerign
- festeringg
- festerinng
- festernig
- festerring
- festreing
- festtering
- fetsering
- ffestering
- fsetering
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of festering - 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
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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).