gassing
"gassing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gassing” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #44,217 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #44,217
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Poisoning by noxious gas.
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 | gassing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “gassing” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for gassing is 7 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #44,217 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gassing, with forms such as "agssing", "gasing", and "gasisng". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "gazing", "gating", "gosling", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is gassing, spelled G-A-S-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Poisoning by noxious gas.
- 2The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.
- 3The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres.
- 4Any similar process of singeing.
- 5boasting; insincere or empty talk
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agssing,gasing,gasisng,gassign,gassingg,gassinng,gassnig,ggassing,gsasing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gassing - 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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Using “gassing”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-A-S-S-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “gazing” - see the side-by-side comparison. gassing vs gazing
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.