gating
"gating" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gating” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,349. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,349
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An arrangement of gates.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gating · gating · English
gating · rank #49,349 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,349
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gangland
Nearest frequency peer: gangland (-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 “gating”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- futon
futon
50,656 corpus weight
- Gabor
Gabor
50,655 corpus weight
- Gabriele
Gabriele
50,654 corpus weight
- gangland
gangland
50,653 corpus weight
- gating
gating
50,652 corpus weight
- Geffen
Geffen
50,649 corpus weight
What this shows “gating” 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 | gating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “gating”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around gating, anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,349 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for gating, with forms such as "agting", "gaitng", and "gatign". 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, "going", "Gavin", "giving", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is gating, spelled G-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An arrangement of gates.
- 2The selective regulation or restriction of access to something.
- 3The control of the flow of signals based on certain conditions or criteria.
- 4A punishment whereby a student is prohibited from leaving the college grounds.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gating appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] said tumblers having gatings adapted for alignment so as to allow the outer pin to move entirely out of said cylinder groove as the inner pin moves into said tumbler gatings whereby to release said key plug for rotation.
You’ll get off with a fine or a gating I suppose; but we have to be more particular.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agting
- gaitng
- gatign
- gatingg
- gatinng
- gatnig
- gatting
- ggating
- gtaing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gating - 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 "gating", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).