meeting
/ˈmiːtɪŋ/
"meeting" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“meeting” is in the everyday core of English, ranked #736 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #736
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of persons or things that meet.
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 | meeting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmiːtɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “meeting” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for meeting is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmiːtɪŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #736 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for meeting, with forms such as "emeting", "meeitng", and "meetign". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Messing", "melting", "mending", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting (“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting (“meeting, encounter”), Middle Low Germ… The correct English form is meeting, spelled M-E-E-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of persons or things that meet.
- 2A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
- 3The people at such a gathering.
- 4An encounter between people, even accidental.
- 5A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
- 6A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
- 7An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
Etymology
From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting (“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting (“meeting, encounter”), Middle Low German mö̂tinge (“meeting”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emeting,meeitng,meetign,meetingg,meetinng,meetnig,meetting,meteing,meting,mmeeting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of meeting - 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 “meeting”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-E-E-T-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈmiːtɪŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Messing” - see the side-by-side comparison. meeting vs Messing
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.