filtering
"filtering" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“filtering” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,717. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,717
- 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 process of passing something through a filter.
Corpus desk
Index EN-filtering · filtering · English
filtering · rank #13,717 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,717
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fencing
Nearest frequency peer: fencing (-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 “filtering”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Erica
Erica
86,289 corpus weight
- fencing
fencing
86,285 corpus weight
- filtering
filtering
86,284 corpus weight
- Fleming
Fleming
86,282 corpus weight
- flop
flop
86,281 corpus weight
- follower
follower
86,280 corpus weight
What this shows “filtering” 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 | filtering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “filtering”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around filtering, anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,717 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for filtering, with forms such as "ffiltering", "filetring", and "filltering". 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, "fingering", "faltering", "festering", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is filtering, spelled F-I-L-T-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The process of passing something through a filter.
- 2Something that passes through a filter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how filtering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
the filterings from the subsoils
Waking up in Langogne in a dim dawn, I felt in a strange sort of way more at home than I'd been for a long time in my own sadly altered version of home, even a year on from her death – especially in the first filterings of daylight […]
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffiltering
- filetring
- filltering
- filteirng
- filterign
- filteringg
- filterinng
- filternig
- filterring
- filtreing
- filttering
- fitlering
- flitering
- ifltering
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of filtering - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "filtering", 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 (14 here; floor ≥5).