meandering

adj

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"meandering" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“meandering” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,916. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#32,916
frequency rank, English
4,057
“M” headwords
15
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Winding or rambling.

Corpus desk

Index EN-meandering · meandering · English

meandering · rank #32,916 · 15 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #32,916
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,057
  • PHOTO-FINISH McKnight

Nearest frequency peer: McKnight (-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 “meandering”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “meandering” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for meandering
PropertyValue
Headwordmeandering
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters10
Frequency rank#32,916
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “meandering”

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).meanderinglands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Same rarity band neighbours include “McKnight” (#32,915), “mayne” (#32,914), “Mendez” (#32,918). Among 4,057 “M” headwords, “meandering” is #32,916. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around meandering, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #32,916 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Winding or rambling.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for meandering, with forms such as "emandering", "maendering", and "meadnering". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Our source data has no etymology on file 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 meandering, spelled M-E-A-N-D-E-R-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    Winding or rambling.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how meandering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. After petrol rationing ended in 1952, the BTC was aware that more swingeing cuts had to be made, and a sinister message was conveyed by the loss of the meandering 38-mile route from Blisworth to Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1952, and the 25-mile Abergavenny-Merthyr Heads of the Valleys line in January 1958.
  2. “Billups, how much farther to the compound?” “At our meandering speed, 15 minutes?”

This word in other languages

méandreux(Français)mäandernd(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emandering
  • maendering
  • meadnering
  • meanddering
  • meandeirng
  • meanderign
  • meanderingg
  • meanderinng
  • meandernig
  • meanderring
  • meandreing
  • meanedring
  • meanndering
  • menadering
  • mmeandering

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of meandering - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

emandering2maendering2meadnering2meanddering1meandeirng2meanderign2meanderingg1meanderinng1
Edit distance from "meandering"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "meandering"?
"meandering" is spelled M-E-A-N-D-E-R-I-N-G.
What does "meandering" mean?
As an adjective, "meandering" means: Winding or rambling.
What are common misspellings of "meandering"?
Common misspellings include "emandering", "maendering", "meadnering", "meanddering", "meandeirng". The correct spelling is "meandering".
What language does "meandering" come from?
"meandering" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "meandering", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list