founding
/ˈfaʊndɪŋ/
"founding" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“founding” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #7,229. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,229
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of found
Corpus desk
Index EN-founding · founding · English
founding · rank #7,229 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,229
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fossil
Nearest frequency peer: fossil (-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 “founding”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- failures
failures
92,775 corpus weight
- feat
feat
92,774 corpus weight
- fossil
fossil
92,773 corpus weight
- founding
founding
92,772 corpus weight
- freight
freight
92,771 corpus weight
- goddamn
goddamn
92,769 corpus weight
What this shows “founding” 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 | founding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈfaʊndɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “founding”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around founding (IPA /ˈfaʊndɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,229 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of found".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for founding, with forms such as "ffounding", "fonuding", and "foudning". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "funding", "finding", "folding", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is founding, spelled F-O-U-N-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of found
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how founding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffounding
- fonuding
- foudning
- foundding
- foundign
- foundingg
- foundinng
- foundnig
- founidng
- founnding
- fuonding
- ofunding
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of founding - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "founding", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).