kissing
/ˈkɪsɪŋ/
"kissing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kissing” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #7,467. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,467
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of kiss
Corpus desk
Index EN-kissing · kissing · English
kissing · rank #7,467 · 9 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,467
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Joel
Nearest frequency peer: Joel (-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 “kissing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Jackie
Jackie
92,536 corpus weight
- Joel
Joel
92,535 corpus weight
- kissing
kissing
92,534 corpus weight
- lanes
lanes
92,533 corpus weight
- licence
licence
92,532 corpus weight
- lungs
lungs
92,531 corpus weight
What this shows “kissing” 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 | kissing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkɪsɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,467 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “kissing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around kissing (IPA /ˈkɪsɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,467 among 1,236 “K” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of kiss".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for kissing, with forms such as "ikssing", "kising", and "kisisng". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Kissinger", "killing", "kidding", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English kissynge, cussinde, from Old English cyssende, from Proto-West Germanic *kussijandī, from Proto-Germanic *kussijandz, equivalent to kiss + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian küsjend, Dutch kussend, German Low German küssend, German küs… The correct English form is kissing, spelled K-I-S-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of kiss
Etymology
From Middle English kissynge, cussinde, from Old English cyssende, from Proto-West Germanic *kussijandī, from Proto-Germanic *kussijandz, equivalent to kiss + -ing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian küsjend, Dutch kussend, German Low German küssend, German küssend, Swedish kyssande, Icelandic kyssandi.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ikssing
- kising
- kisisng
- kissign
- kissingg
- kissinng
- kissnig
- kkissing
- ksising
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of kissing - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "kissing", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).