hurting
"hurting" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hurting” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,974. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,974
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A sensation that hurts.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hurting · hurting · English
hurting · rank #5,974 · 11 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,974
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH humble
Nearest frequency peer: humble (-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 “hurting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- harmony
harmony
94,030 corpus weight
- hmm
hmm
94,029 corpus weight
- humble
humble
94,028 corpus weight
- hurting
hurting
94,027 corpus weight
- hybrid
hybrid
94,026 corpus weight
- intentions
intentions
94,025 corpus weight
What this shows “hurting” 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 | hurting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,974 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hurting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around hurting, anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,974 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A sensation that hurts.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for hurting, with forms such as "hhurting", "hruting", and "huritng". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "hustling", "hurtling", "hiring", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is hurting, spelled H-U-R-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A sensation that hurts.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hurting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Surely, it may be urged, no one else can be the subject of my very hurtings or my very itchings. Other people can hurt or itch in the same way […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhurting
- hruting
- huritng
- hurrting
- hurtign
- hurtingg
- hurtinng
- hurtnig
- hurtting
- hutring
- uhrting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hurting - 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 "hurting", 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).