indulging
/ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒɪŋ/
"indulging" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“indulging” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #25,098. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,098
- frequency rank, English
- 17,902
- “I” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - present participle and gerund of indulge
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 | indulging |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #25,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “indulging” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around indulging (IPA /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,098 among 17,902 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of indulge".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for indulging, with forms such as "idnulging", "inddulging", and "indluging". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "insulting", "inducing", "indulgent", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is indulging, spelled I-N-D-U-L-G-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of indulge
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- idnulging
- inddulging
- indluging
- indugling
- indulgging
- indulgign
- indulgingg
- indulginng
- indulgnig
- induligng
- indullging
- inndulging
- inudlging
- nidulging
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of indulging - 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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Using “indulging”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is I-N-D-U-L-G-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒɪŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “insulting” - see the side-by-side comparison. indulging vs insulting
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.