herding
"herding" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“herding” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #30,824. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,824
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An act by which individuals are herded.
Corpus desk
Index EN-herding · herding · English
herding · rank #30,824 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,824
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hel
Nearest frequency peer: Hel (-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 “herding”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- hardline
hardline
69,180 corpus weight
- haves
haves
69,179 corpus weight
- Hel
Hel
69,178 corpus weight
- herding
herding
69,177 corpus weight
- hereinafter
hereinafter
69,176 corpus weight
- hiked
hiked
69,175 corpus weight
What this shows “herding” 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 | herding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #30,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “herding”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around herding, anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,824 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for herding, with forms such as "ehrding", "hedring", and "herdding". 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, "hiding", "hiring", "heroin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is herding, spelled H-E-R-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An act by which individuals are herded.
- 2A hirsel.
- 3Manipulation of poll results by a polling organization so that they match those produced from other organizations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how herding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
These herdings and stabbings and stranglings occurred five hundred years ago, before America felt the withering touch of Europe. Does that exclude them from our concern?
The whole flock is divided up into seven herdings (the equivalent of the Scottish "hirsels"), and it is through the head shepherd's herding that the only new blood is introduced. Every two or three years some rams are bought at Hawick […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ehrding
- hedring
- herdding
- herdign
- herdingg
- herdinng
- herdnig
- heridng
- herrding
- hherding
- hreding
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of herding - 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 "herding", 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).