hissing
/ˈhɪsɪŋ/
"hissing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hissing” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,674. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,674
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of hiss
Corpus desk
Index EN-hissing · hissing · English
hissing · rank #33,674 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,674
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hidalgo
Nearest frequency peer: hidalgo (-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 “hissing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- hapless
hapless
66,330 corpus weight
- harnessing
harnessing
66,329 corpus weight
- hidalgo
hidalgo
66,328 corpus weight
- hissing
hissing
66,327 corpus weight
- hitched
hitched
66,326 corpus weight
- humanistic
humanistic
66,325 corpus weight
What this shows “hissing” 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 | hissing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈhɪsɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,674 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hissing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around hissing (IPA /ˈhɪsɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #33,674 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of hiss".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for hissing, with forms such as "hhissing", "hising", and "hisisng". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "housing", "hitting", "hosting", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is hissing, spelled H-I-S-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of hiss
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hissing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Our solid, shiny chairs, our immense, dingy sofas, our heavy mahogany tables and our cast-iron fenders, often bearing the initials of long-dead railway companies, likewise our plaster walls of chocolate and duck-egg green and our hissing gasoliers have their roots deep in our national history.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhissing
- hising
- hisisng
- hissign
- hissingg
- hissinng
- hissnig
- hsising
- ihssing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hissing - 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 "hissing", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).