flaring
"flaring" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flaring” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #39,814. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,814
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a tendency of streaming, flapping, or spreading broadly as if within a current of air or in outer space.
Corpus desk
Index EN-flaring · flaring · English
flaring · rank #39,814 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,814
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flirtation
Nearest frequency peer: flirtation (+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 “flaring”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- fanned
fanned
60,191 corpus weight
- FES
FES
60,189 corpus weight
- flaring
flaring
60,187 corpus weight
- flirtation
flirtation
60,186 corpus weight
- flor
flor
60,185 corpus weight
- fora
fora
60,184 corpus weight
What this shows “flaring” 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 | flaring |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “flaring”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around flaring, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #39,814 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Having a tendency of streaming, flapping, or spreading broadly as if within a current of air or in outer space.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for flaring, with forms such as "falring", "fflaring", and "flairng". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fling", "flying", "flowing", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 flaring, spelled F-L-A-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Having a tendency of streaming, flapping, or spreading broadly as if within a current of air or in outer space.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flaring appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This consists in a waving motion backward and forward, sometimes like a fan, sometimes like a long scroll flying in the wind, over which flaring waves chase each other with such velocity that the eye refuses to follow their trembling flight. It is, no doubt, this characteristic of sudden and seemingly capricious motion which has given rise in the imaginat…
“Little of this faulty book of mine was composed in the closet,” he explains; “it was gathered by my own eyes and ears, concocted in my own slender intellect while at my rural employment, and wrote down on scraps of paper as I found it convenient in the midst of the works of nature, in the open air, beneath the flaring sun, in a quarryhole perhaps. Someti…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- falring
- fflaring
- flairng
- flarign
- flaringg
- flarinng
- flarnig
- flarring
- fllaring
- flraing
- lfaring
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flaring - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).