guiding
/ˈɡaɪdɪŋ/
"guiding" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“guiding” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,038. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,038
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of guide
Corpus desk
Index EN-guiding · guiding · English
guiding · rank #11,038 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,038
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH grilled
Nearest frequency peer: grilled (-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 “guiding”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- funk
funk
88,966 corpus weight
- greatness
greatness
88,965 corpus weight
- grilled
grilled
88,964 corpus weight
- guiding
guiding
88,963 corpus weight
- hazardous
hazardous
88,961 corpus weight
- hooker
hooker
88,960 corpus weight
What this shows “guiding” 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 | guiding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɡaɪdɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #11,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “guiding”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around guiding (IPA /ˈɡaɪdɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,038 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of guide".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for guiding, with forms such as "gguiding", "giuding", and "gudiing". 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. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "gunning", "gushing", "gutting", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 guiding, spelled G-U-I-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of guide
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how guiding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The cable used for hauling the wagons on the incline may still be seen, but several of the guiding rollers have disappeared.
That's far from the promised land set out in the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail, that the railways would have a guiding mind that would be in control of the industry's finances. Businesses have what is called a profit and loss account, showing both revenue and costs, but the current situation means that the two sides of the system are in different hands -…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gguiding
- giuding
- gudiing
- guidding
- guidign
- guidingg
- guidinng
- guidnig
- guiidng
- ugiding
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of guiding - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "guiding", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).