groping
"groping" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“groping” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #28,574. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,574
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An act of groping; a grope.
Corpus desk
Index EN-groping · groping · English
groping · rank #28,574 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,574
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH grocer
Nearest frequency peer: grocer (-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 “groping”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- granular
granular
71,430 corpus weight
- greenish
greenish
71,429 corpus weight
- grocer
grocer
71,428 corpus weight
- groping
groping
71,427 corpus weight
- headless
headless
71,425 corpus weight
- healthiest
healthiest
71,424 corpus weight
What this shows “groping” 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 | groping |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “groping”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around groping, anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,574 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An act of groping; a grope.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for groping, with forms such as "ggroping", "gorping", and "groipng". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "growing", "grouping", "growling", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is groping, spelled G-R-O-P-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An act of groping; a grope.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how groping appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sexual harassment may include rape or attempted rape; it may include gropings, touching up and suggestive remarks.
But we now look at the Met's westerly gropings. These began from the new, south-westerly pointing annexe at Paddington - Paddington (Praed Street). From there the Met marched on Bayswater (now Queensway), Notting Hill Gate, High Street Kensington and Gloucester Road before effecting its rendezvous with the District at South Kensington in December 1868.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggroping
- gorping
- groipng
- gropign
- gropingg
- gropinng
- gropnig
- gropping
- grpoing
- grroping
- rgoping
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of groping - 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 "groping", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).