hatching
/ˈhæt͡ʃɪŋ/
"hatching" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hatching” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #26,811. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,811
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hatching · hatching · English
hatching · rank #26,811 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,811
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hearst
Nearest frequency peer: Hearst (+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 “hatching”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- gout
gout
73,195 corpus weight
- Hailey
Hailey
73,193 corpus weight
- Harlow
Harlow
73,192 corpus weight
- hatching
hatching
73,190 corpus weight
- Hearst
Hearst
73,189 corpus weight
- hepatic
hepatic
73,186 corpus weight
What this shows “hatching” 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 | hatching |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhæt͡ʃɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #26,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hatching”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around hatching (IPA /ˈhæt͡ʃɪŋ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,811 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for hatching, with forms such as "ahtching", "hacthing", and "hatcching". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "hating", "Hutchins", "hitching", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 hatching, spelled H-A-T-C-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
- 2A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.
- 3The act of an egg hatching, eclosion.
- 4Patterns used in construction drawings to represent various materials.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hatching appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We got a good hatching from the swallowtail eggs.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahtching
- hacthing
- hatcching
- hatchhing
- hatchign
- hatchingg
- hatchinng
- hatchnig
- hatcihng
- hathcing
- hattching
- hhatching
- htaching
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hatching - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "hatching", 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).