ignoring
"ignoring" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ignoring” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,694. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,694
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is ignored.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ignoring · ignoring · English
ignoring · rank #6,694 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #6,694
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH ignorance
Nearest frequency peer: ignorance (-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 “ignoring”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- harper
harper
93,310 corpus weight
- hart
hart
93,309 corpus weight
- ignorance
ignorance
93,308 corpus weight
- ignoring
ignoring
93,307 corpus weight
- immigrant
immigrant
93,306 corpus weight
- induced
induced
93,305 corpus weight
What this shows “ignoring” 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 | ignoring |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “ignoring”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around ignoring, anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,694 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act by which something is ignored.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for ignoring, with forms such as "ginoring", "iggnoring", and "ignnoring". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "ignorant", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is ignoring, spelled I-G-N-O-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is ignored.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ignoring appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!
We ignore various far-fetched possibilities, as hard-headed detectives should. But S does not ignore them. S is by profession a sceptical epistemologist. He never ignores much of anything. If it is our own ignorings that matter, then we are wrong, because S never knew much of anything.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ginoring
- iggnoring
- ignnoring
- ignoirng
- ignorign
- ignoringg
- ignorinng
- ignornig
- ignorring
- ignroing
- igonring
- ingoring
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ignoring - 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
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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).