mailing
/ˈmeɪlɪŋ/
"mailing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mailing” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,012. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,012
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An act of sending mail.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mailing · mailing · English
mailing · rank #13,012 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,012
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mao
Nearest frequency peer: mao (+2 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 “mailing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Lawson
Lawson
86,994 corpus weight
- Lindsey
Lindsey
86,992 corpus weight
- mailing
mailing
86,989 corpus weight
- mao
mao
86,987 corpus weight
- mare
mare
86,986 corpus weight
- Marxist
Marxist
86,985 corpus weight
What this shows “mailing” 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 | mailing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmeɪlɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “mailing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mailing (IPA /ˈmeɪlɪŋ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,012 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An act of sending mail.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mailing, with forms such as "amiling", "maiilng", and "mailign". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Malin", "making", "mining", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 mailing, spelled M-A-I-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An act of sending mail.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mailing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He has taken to flooding the mailboxes of gay organizations in recent months, urging us to do this or buy that; two recent examples of such mailings are especially telling. In one, he suggests that we join a national writers union […] The other mailing offers us the chance to pay for the privilege of sending flyers for the gay books Witomski thinks are so…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amiling
- maiilng
- mailign
- mailingg
- mailinng
- mailling
- mailnig
- maliing
- mialing
- mmailing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mailing - 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 "mailing", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).