hinting
/ˈhɪntɪŋ/
"hinting" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hinting” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #25,410. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,410
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of giving a hint or suggestion.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hinting · hinting · English
hinting · rank #25,410 · 11 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,410
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hoarding
Nearest frequency peer: hoarding (+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 “hinting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- hemorrhage
hemorrhage
74,595 corpus weight
- hereafter
hereafter
74,594 corpus weight
- hijacking
hijacking
74,593 corpus weight
- hinting
hinting
74,591 corpus weight
- hoarding
hoarding
74,590 corpus weight
- hoods
hoods
74,588 corpus weight
What this shows “hinting” 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 | hinting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhɪntɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #25,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hinting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around hinting (IPA /ˈhɪntɪŋ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,410 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for hinting, with forms such as "hhinting", "hinitng", and "hinnting". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "hiring", "Hinton", "honing", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 hinting, spelled H-I-N-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of giving a hint or suggestion.
- 2The process of adding hints to a computer-based font in order to align the glyphs to a rasterized grid at specific sizes in a visually appealing manner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hinting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Risa herself was questioned, as she expected, but the ladies took their cue from Marie and appeared content with her somewhat short answers, even when she only turned her gaze downward and blushed at the hintings at her betrothal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhinting
- hinitng
- hinnting
- hintign
- hintingg
- hintinng
- hintnig
- hintting
- hitning
- hniting
- ihnting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hinting - 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 "hinting", 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).