languishing
"languishing" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“languishing” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #46,021. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,021
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of one who languishes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | languishing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #46,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “languishing” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around languishing, anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,021 among 16,425 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of one who languishes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for languishing, with forms such as "alnguishing", "lagnuishing", and "langguishing". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is languishing, spelled L-A-N-G-U-I-S-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who languishes.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alnguishing
- lagnuishing
- langguishing
- langiushing
- languihsing
- languishhing
- languishign
- languishingg
- languishinng
- languishnig
- languisihng
- languisshing
- langusihing
- lannguishing
- lanugishing
- llanguishing
- lnaguishing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of languishing - 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 “languishing”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-A-N-G-U-I-S-H-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.