flailing
/ˈfleɪlɪŋ/
"flailing" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flailing” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #34,057. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,057
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of flail
Corpus desk
Index EN-flailing · flailing · English
flailing · rank #34,057 · 12 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,057
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH firehouse
Nearest frequency peer: firehouse (-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 “flailing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- fiercest
fiercest
65,946 corpus weight
- firehouse
firehouse
65,945 corpus weight
- flailing
flailing
65,944 corpus weight
- flaky
flaky
65,943 corpus weight
- Fleury
Fleury
65,942 corpus weight
- flotilla
flotilla
65,941 corpus weight
What this shows “flailing” 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 | flailing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈfleɪlɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “flailing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around flailing (IPA /ˈfleɪlɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,057 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of flail".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for flailing, with forms such as "faliling", "fflailing", and "flaiilng". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "flaming", "flaring", "flashing", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 flailing, spelled F-L-A-I-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of flail
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- faliling
- fflailing
- flaiilng
- flailign
- flailingg
- flailinng
- flailling
- flailnig
- flaliing
- flialing
- fllailing
- lfailing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flailing - 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
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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).