hurtling
"hurtling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hurtling” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,409. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,409
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of something being hurtled or thrown.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hurtling · hurtling · English
hurtling · rank #49,409 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,409
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH humps
Nearest frequency peer: humps (-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 “hurtling”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- HRW
HRW
50,596 corpus weight
- Hulme
Hulme
50,594 corpus weight
- humps
humps
50,593 corpus weight
- hurtling
hurtling
50,592 corpus weight
- hyperinflat…
hyperinflation
50,591 corpus weight
- ICJ
ICJ
50,590 corpus weight
What this shows “hurtling” 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 | hurtling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hurtling”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around hurtling, anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,409 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of something being hurtled or thrown.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for hurtling, with forms such as "hhurtling", "hrutling", and "hurlting". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "hustling", "hunting", "hurting", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is hurtling, spelled H-U-R-T-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of something being hurtled or thrown.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hurtling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He clasped his hands over the breast of the brave young Irish volunteer, who had come so willingly with him from the same State, who had stood so gallantly by his side in the deadly hurtlings of battle […]
Thenceforth no flying fires inflamed the gray, / No hurtlings shook the dewdrop from the thorn, / No moan perplexed the mute bird on the spray; […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhurtling
- hrutling
- hurlting
- hurrtling
- hurtilng
- hurtlign
- hurtlingg
- hurtlinng
- hurtlling
- hurtlnig
- hurttling
- hutrling
- uhrtling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hurtling - 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 "hurtling", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).