hopping
"hopping" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hopping” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,490. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,490
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hopping · hopping · English
hopping · rank #16,490 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,490
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH homelessness
Nearest frequency peer: homelessness (-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 “hopping”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Hobart
Hobart
83,513 corpus weight
- homelessness
homelessness
83,512 corpus weight
- hopping
hopping
83,511 corpus weight
- horrendous
horrendous
83,510 corpus weight
- horrified
horrified
83,509 corpus weight
- hostel
hostel
83,508 corpus weight
What this shows “hopping” 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 | hopping |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hopping”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around hopping, anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,490 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for hopping, with forms such as "hhopping", "hopipng", and "hoppign". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "hyping", "housing", "hosting", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Alternative spelling (C17) of hoppe, from Middle French houbelon The correct English form is hopping, spelled H-O-P-P-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
- 2The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hopping appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hopping Down in Kent, Alan Bignell (1977).
Etymology
Alternative spelling (C17) of hoppe, from Middle French houbelon
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhopping
- hopipng
- hoppign
- hoppingg
- hoppinng
- hoppnig
- hpoping
- ohpping
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hopping - 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
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).