hating
/ˈheɪtɪŋ/
"hating" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hating” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,051. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,051
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of hate
Corpus desk
Index EN-hating · hating · English
hating · rank #9,051 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,051
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH grounded
Nearest frequency peer: grounded (-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 “hating”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- goose
goose
90,953 corpus weight
- grill
grill
90,952 corpus weight
- grounded
grounded
90,951 corpus weight
- hating
hating
90,950 corpus weight
- heel
heel
90,949 corpus weight
- heroic
heroic
90,948 corpus weight
What this shows “hating” 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 | hating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈheɪtɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hating”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around hating (IPA /ˈheɪtɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,051 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of hate".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for hating, with forms such as "ahting", "haitng", and "hatign". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hing", "having", "hoping", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 hating, spelled H-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of hate
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahting
- haitng
- hatign
- hatingg
- hatinng
- hatnig
- hatting
- hhating
- htaing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hating - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).