indicating
/ˈɪndɪkeɪtɪŋ/
"indicating" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“indicating” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,149. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,149
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of indicate
Corpus desk
Index EN-indicating · indicating · English
indicating · rank #6,149 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,149
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH importantly
Nearest frequency peer: importantly (-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 “indicating”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- heated
heated
93,855 corpus weight
- hug
hug
93,854 corpus weight
- importantly
importantly
93,853 corpus weight
- indicating
indicating
93,852 corpus weight
- indoor
indoor
93,851 corpus weight
- influential
influential
93,850 corpus weight
What this shows “indicating” 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 | indicating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɪndɪkeɪtɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,149 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “indicating”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around indicating (IPA /ˈɪndɪkeɪtɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,149 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of indicate".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for indicating, with forms such as "idnicating", "indciating", and "inddicating". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "indication", "indicative", 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 indicating, spelled I-N-D-I-C-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of indicate
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- idnicating
- indciating
- inddicating
- indiacting
- indicaitng
- indicatign
- indicatingg
- indicatinng
- indicatnig
- indicatting
- indiccating
- indictaing
- inidcating
- inndicating
- nidicating
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of indicating - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "indicating", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).