interfering
"interfering" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“interfering” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,345. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,345
- frequency rank, English
- 2,140
- “I” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - interference
Corpus desk
Index EN-interfering · interfering · English
interfering · rank #14,345 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,345
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH insurer
Nearest frequency peer: insurer (-2 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 “interfering”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- impending
impending
85,660 corpus weight
- insignifica…
insignificant
85,659 corpus weight
- insurer
insurer
85,658 corpus weight
- interfering
interfering
85,656 corpus weight
- Jonah
Jonah
85,654 corpus weight
- Kerala
Kerala
85,653 corpus weight
What this shows “interfering” 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 | interfering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #14,345 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “interfering”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around interfering, anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,345 among 2,140 “I” headwords. Dominant gloss: "interference".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for interfering, with forms such as "inetrfering", "innterfering", and "intefrering". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "interferon", "intervening", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 interfering, spelled I-N-T-E-R-F-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1interference
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how interfering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] incessant interferings and bickerings, in every country, between the secular powers and the ecclesiastical.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- inetrfering
- innterfering
- intefrering
- interefring
- interfeirng
- interferign
- interferingg
- interferinng
- interfernig
- interferring
- interffering
- interfreing
- interrfering
- intrefering
- intterfering
- itnerfering
- niterfering
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of interfering - 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 "interfering", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).