lending
"lending" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lending” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,685. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,685
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The action of, or an instance of the action of the verb to lend.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lending · lending · English
lending · rank #8,685 · 11 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,685
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH learnt
Nearest frequency peer: learnt (-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 “lending”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- informal
informal
91,319 corpus weight
- Jew
Jew
91,318 corpus weight
- learnt
learnt
91,317 corpus weight
- lending
lending
91,316 corpus weight
- marker
marker
91,315 corpus weight
- marsh
marsh
91,314 corpus weight
What this shows “lending” 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 | lending |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,685 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “lending”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around lending, anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,685 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The action of, or an instance of the action of the verb to lend.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for lending, with forms such as "elnding", "ledning", and "lendding". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Lenin", "lining", "letting", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is lending, spelled L-E-N-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The action of, or an instance of the action of the verb to lend.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lending appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elnding
- ledning
- lendding
- lendign
- lendingg
- lendinng
- lendnig
- lenidng
- lennding
- llending
- lneding
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lending - 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 "lending", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).