inking
"inking" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“inking” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #44,270. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,270
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An application of ink.
Corpus desk
Index EN-inking · inking · English
inking · rank #44,270 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,270
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH indented
Nearest frequency peer: indented (-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 “inking”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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55,735 corpus weight
- indented
indented
55,732 corpus weight
- inking
inking
55,731 corpus weight
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insolence
55,730 corpus weight
- instigation
instigation
55,729 corpus weight
- irresponsib…
irresponsibility
55,728 corpus weight
What this shows “inking” 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 | inking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #44,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “inking”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around inking, anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,270 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for inking, with forms such as "ikning", "inikng", and "inkign". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "inning", "Irving", "inline", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 inking, spelled I-N-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An application of ink.
- 2Work done by an inker, one kind of commercial artist
- 3Inputting text or drawings into a computer, tablet, or similar apparatus using a stylus.
- 4A defensive activity where ink is released by squids, cuttlefish, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how inking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In a rotary printing-machine, a cylinder carrying a single relief design, means for imparting successive complete inkings to said design […]
Mucus-rich ink is supposedly a dangerous or annoying substance that interferes with fish gills and some cephalopods react adversely to their own inkings in small containers or in the lab. The blue-ringed octopus Hapalochlaena lunulata has tetrodotoxin, the deadly toxin it also releases in a bite, in their ink but the concentrations and effect in inking ar…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ikning
- inikng
- inkign
- inkingg
- inkinng
- inkking
- inknig
- innking
- niking
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of inking - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).