hovering
"hovering" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hovering” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,632. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,632
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of one who hovers.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hovering · hovering · English
hovering · rank #17,632 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,632
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hoo
Nearest frequency peer: hoo (-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 “hovering”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- HMS
HMS
82,372 corpus weight
- Hodges
Hodges
82,371 corpus weight
- hoo
hoo
82,370 corpus weight
- hovering
hovering
82,369 corpus weight
- hun
hun
82,367 corpus weight
- hysteria
hysteria
82,366 corpus weight
What this shows “hovering” 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 | hovering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hovering”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around hovering, anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,632 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of one who hovers.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for hovering, with forms such as "hhovering", "hoevring", and "hoveirng". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "hollering", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists 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 hovering, spelled H-O-V-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who hovers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hovering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Their visitor was an issue - at least to the imagination, and they arrived finally, under provocation, at intensities of flutter in which they felt themselves so compromised by his hoverings that they could only consider with relief the fact of nobody's knowing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhovering
- hoevring
- hoveirng
- hoverign
- hoveringg
- hoverinng
- hovernig
- hoverring
- hovreing
- hovvering
- hvoering
- ohvering
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hovering - 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 "hovering", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).