governing
/ˈɡʌvɚnɪŋ/
"governing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“governing” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,884. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,884
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of govern
Corpus desk
Index EN-governing · governing · English
governing · rank #5,884 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,884
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH feminist
Nearest frequency peer: feminist (-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 “governing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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excessive
94,120 corpus weight
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exercises
94,119 corpus weight
- feminist
feminist
94,118 corpus weight
- governing
governing
94,117 corpus weight
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ham
94,116 corpus weight
- heal
heal
94,115 corpus weight
What this shows “governing” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | governing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɡʌvɚnɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “governing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around governing (IPA /ˈɡʌvɚnɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,884 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of govern".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for governing, with forms such as "ggoverning", "goevrning", and "govenring". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 governing, spelled G-O-V-E-R-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of govern
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggoverning
- goevrning
- govenring
- goverinng
- governign
- governingg
- governinng
- governnig
- governning
- goverrning
- govrening
- govverning
- gvoerning
- ogverning
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of governing - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).