hurling
"hurling" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hurling” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,192. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,192
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hurling · hurling · English
hurling · rank #24,192 · 11 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,192
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH HPV
Nearest frequency peer: HPV (-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 “hurling”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Hollis
Hollis
75,812 corpus weight
- horticultur…
horticultural
75,811 corpus weight
- HPV
HPV
75,810 corpus weight
- hurling
hurling
75,809 corpus weight
- hurried
hurried
75,808 corpus weight
- ide
ide
75,806 corpus weight
What this shows “hurling” 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 | hurling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hurling”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around hurling, anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,192 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for hurling, with forms such as "hhurling", "hruling", and "hulring". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "hurting", "hustling", "hurrying", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is hurling, spelled H-U-R-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
- 2An Irish game of ancient Celtic origin. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley (camán in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
- 3A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hurling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In Mr. J. C. Hotten’s Life, and in Mr. A. W. Ward’s admirable monograph in the “English Men of Letters” Series, a paper of mine called “Pincher Astray” is attributed to Dickens.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhurling
- hruling
- hulring
- hurilng
- hurlign
- hurlingg
- hurlinng
- hurlling
- hurlnig
- hurrling
- uhrling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hurling - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "hurling", 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).