meddling
"meddling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“meddling” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,644. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,644
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unwanted interference
Corpus desk
Index EN-meddling · meddling · English
meddling · rank #19,644 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,644
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH McBride
Nearest frequency peer: McBride (-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 “meddling”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Maguire
Maguire
80,361 corpus weight
- margarita
margarita
80,360 corpus weight
- McBride
McBride
80,358 corpus weight
- meddling
meddling
80,357 corpus weight
- Nadia
Nadia
80,356 corpus weight
- nods
nods
80,355 corpus weight
What this shows “meddling” 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 | meddling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “meddling”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around meddling, anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,644 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for meddling, with forms such as "emddling", "mdedling", and "meddilng". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "mending", "modeling", "middling", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is meddling, spelled M-E-D-D-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1unwanted interference
- 2An instance of meddling.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how meddling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It had been well, if these dishonest meddlings with existing books had stopped here.
I learned more about it than most people because triffids were my job, and the firm I worked for was intimately, if not very gracefully, concerned in their public appearance. Nevertheless, their true origin still remains obscure. My own belief, for what that is worth, is that they were the outcome of a series of ingenious biological meddlings - and very l…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emddling
- mdedling
- meddilng
- meddlign
- meddlingg
- meddlinng
- meddlling
- meddlnig
- medlding
- medling
- mmeddling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of meddling - 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 "meddling", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).