malfunctioning
"malfunctioning" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“malfunctioning” has 22 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #31,249. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,249
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
- 22
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A malfunction.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malfunctioning |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #31,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 22 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “malfunctioning” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 22 spelling variants around malfunctioning, anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,249 among 36,575 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A malfunction.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 22 likely wrong-spelling variants for malfunctioning, with forms such as "amlfunctioning", "maflunctioning", and "malffunctioning". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 malfunctioning, spelled M-A-L-F-U-N-C-T-I-O-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A malfunction.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amlfunctioning
- maflunctioning
- malffunctioning
- malfnuctioning
- malfucntioning
- malfuncctioning
- malfuncitoning
- malfunctinoing
- malfunctioinng
- malfunctionign
- malfunctioningg
- malfunctioninng
- malfunctionnig
- malfunctionning
- malfunctoining
- malfuncttioning
- malfunnctioning
- malfuntcioning
- mallfunctioning
- malufnctioning
- mlafunctioning
- mmalfunctioning
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of malfunctioning - 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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Using “malfunctioning”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-L-F-U-N-C-T-I-O-N-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.