lurking
"lurking" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lurking” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,357. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,357
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of one who lurks.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lurking · lurking · English
lurking · rank #14,357 · 11 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,357
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH logos
Nearest frequency peer: logos (-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 “lurking”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Locke
Locke
85,646 corpus weight
- logos
logos
85,645 corpus weight
- lurking
lurking
85,644 corpus weight
- madden
madden
85,643 corpus weight
- magician
magician
85,642 corpus weight
- magistrates
magistrates
85,641 corpus weight
What this shows “lurking” 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 | lurking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #14,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “lurking”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around lurking, anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,357 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of one who lurks.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for lurking, with forms such as "llurking", "lruking", and "lukring". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "liking", "Larkin", "luring", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 lurking, spelled L-U-R-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who lurks.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lurking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In these hunting scenes, as many critics have noted, the reversals, negotiations, lurkings, and evasions between hunter and prey mirror and frame the bedroom strategies of the Lady and Gawain.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llurking
- lruking
- lukring
- lurikng
- lurkign
- lurkingg
- lurkinng
- lurkking
- lurknig
- lurrking
- ulrking
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lurking - 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 "lurking", 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).