granting
"granting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“granting” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,552. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,552
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is granted.
Corpus desk
Index EN-granting · granting · English
granting · rank #11,552 · 13 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,552
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH greeting
Nearest frequency peer: greeting (+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 “granting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- freelance
freelance
88,453 corpus weight
- Gerard
Gerard
88,452 corpus weight
- gin
gin
88,451 corpus weight
- granting
granting
88,449 corpus weight
- greeting
greeting
88,448 corpus weight
- Hawaiian
Hawaiian
88,447 corpus weight
What this shows “granting” 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 | granting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,552 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “granting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around granting, anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,552 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act by which something is granted.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for granting, with forms such as "garnting", "ggranting", and "granitng". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "grazing", "grating", "grinding", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is granting, spelled G-R-A-N-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is granted.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how granting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] after grantings, revokings, and re-grantings, of the liberty of Yarmouth […]
We want to make it clear that […] the Department of Agriculture has no responsibility and takes no position with regard to the grantings of individual export licenses or to whom such licenses are granted.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garnting
- ggranting
- granitng
- grannting
- grantign
- grantingg
- grantinng
- grantnig
- grantting
- gratning
- grnating
- grranting
- rganting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of granting - 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 "granting", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).