forecasting
"forecasting" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“forecasting” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #15,615. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,615
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of forecast
Corpus desk
Index EN-forecasting · forecasting · English
forecasting · rank #15,615 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,615
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Freud
Nearest frequency peer: Freud (+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 “forecasting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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fiancé
84,389 corpus weight
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flashback
84,388 corpus weight
- forecasting
forecasting
84,386 corpus weight
- Freud
Freud
84,385 corpus weight
- Friedman
Friedman
84,384 corpus weight
- funnel
funnel
84,383 corpus weight
What this shows “forecasting” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forecasting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #15,615 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “forecasting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around forecasting, averb. Corpus frequency is #15,615 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of forecast".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for forecasting, with forms such as "fforecasting", "foercasting", and "forceasting". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From forecast + -ing. The correct English form is forecasting, spelled F-O-R-E-C-A-S-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of forecast
Etymology
From forecast + -ing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fforecasting
- foercasting
- forceasting
- foreacsting
- forecasitng
- forecassting
- forecastign
- forecastingg
- forecastinng
- forecastnig
- forecastting
- forecatsing
- foreccasting
- forecsating
- forrecasting
- froecasting
- ofrecasting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of forecasting - 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 "forecasting", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).