humiliating
/hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/
"humiliating" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“humiliating” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #15,831. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,831
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-humiliating · humiliating · English
humiliating · rank #15,831 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #15,831
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH horrifying
Nearest frequency peer: horrifying (-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 “humiliating”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Harding
Harding
84,173 corpus weight
- holiness
holiness
84,172 corpus weight
- horrifying
horrifying
84,171 corpus weight
- humiliating
humiliating
84,170 corpus weight
- iced
iced
84,169 corpus weight
- Ida
Ida
84,168 corpus weight
What this shows “humiliating” 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 | humiliating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #15,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “humiliating”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around humiliating (IPA /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,831 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for humiliating, with forms such as "hhumiliating", "hmuiliating", and "huimliating". 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, "humiliation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 humiliating, spelled H-U-M-I-L-I-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how humiliating appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhumiliating
- hmuiliating
- huimliating
- humiilating
- humilaiting
- humiliaitng
- humiliatign
- humiliatingg
- humiliatinng
- humiliatnig
- humiliatting
- humilitaing
- humilliating
- humliiating
- hummiliating
- uhmiliating
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of humiliating - 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 "humiliating", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).