melting
/ˈmɛltɪŋ/
"melting" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“melting” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,631. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,631
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
Corpus desk
Index EN-melting · melting · English
melting · rank #9,631 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,631
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH mel
Nearest frequency peer: mel (-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 “melting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Maggie
Maggie
90,373 corpus weight
- Marion
Marion
90,372 corpus weight
- mel
mel
90,371 corpus weight
- melting
melting
90,370 corpus weight
- messaging
messaging
90,369 corpus weight
- microwave
microwave
90,368 corpus weight
What this shows “melting” 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 | melting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈmɛltɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “melting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around melting (IPA /ˈmɛltɪŋ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,631 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for melting, with forms such as "emlting", "melitng", and "mellting". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "Melvin", "melton", "Messing", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 melting, spelled M-E-L-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
- 2Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
- 3That causes one to melt with emotion; able to make others feel tender and emotional.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how melting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
What guards the purity of melting maids, / In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades [...]?
And he, Allada Khan, had decided that the child was not unlike himself - an unaggressive nose, and intelligent forehead, eyes both lively and melting.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emlting
- melitng
- mellting
- meltign
- meltingg
- meltinng
- meltnig
- meltting
- metling
- mleting
- mmelting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of melting - 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 "melting", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).