living
/ˈlɪvɪŋ/
"living" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“living” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #503. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #503
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle of live
Corpus desk
Index EN-living · living · English
living · rank #503 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #503
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH fun
Nearest frequency peer: fun (-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 “living”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- child
child
99,501 corpus weight
- fire
fire
99,500 corpus weight
- fun
fun
99,499 corpus weight
- living
living
99,498 corpus weight
- major
major
99,497 corpus weight
- media
media
99,496 corpus weight
What this shows “living” 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 | living |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈlɪvɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #503 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “living”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around living (IPA /ˈlɪvɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #503 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle of live".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for living, with forms such as "ilving", "liivng", and "livign". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "lying", "Lovin", "losing", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English livynge, libbyng, livinde, livand, livende, libbinde, libbende, from Old English lifiġende, lifiende, libbende, from Proto-West Germanic *libbjandī, from Proto-Germanic *libjandz (“living”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *libjaną … The correct English form is living, spelled L-I-V-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle of live
Etymology
From Middle English livynge, libbyng, livinde, livand, livende, libbinde, libbende, from Old English lifiġende, lifiende, libbende, from Proto-West Germanic *libbjandī, from Proto-Germanic *libjandz (“living”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *libjaną (“to live”), equivalent to live + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian libbend (“living”), Dutch levend (“living”), German lebend (“living”), Swedish levande (“living”), Icelandic lifandi (“living”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ilving
- liivng
- livign
- livingg
- livinng
- livnig
- livving
- lliving
- lviing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of living - 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 "living", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).