mesmerizing
"mesmerizing" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mesmerizing” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #30,500. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,500
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exercising mesmerism on; spellbinding; enthralling.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mesmerizing · mesmerizing · English
mesmerizing · rank #30,500 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #30,500
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH melatonin
Nearest frequency peer: melatonin (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “mesmerizing”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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69,501 corpus weight
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69,499 corpus weight
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What this shows Bars show where “mesmerizing” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | mesmerizing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #30,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mesmerizing” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around mesmerizing, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,500 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Exercising mesmerism on; spellbinding; enthralling.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for mesmerizing, with forms such as "emsmerizing", "memserizing", and "mesemrizing". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "memorizing", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is mesmerizing, spelled M-E-S-M-E-R-I-Z-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Exercising mesmerism on; spellbinding; enthralling.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mesmerizing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a mesmerizing lava lamp
As mesmerizing as it is to watch Kristen Kish whip up bacon and cinnamon waffles with boysenberry and strawberry jam, imagine playing poker with Hosea Rosenberg.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emsmerizing
- memserizing
- mesemrizing
- mesmeirzing
- mesmeriizng
- mesmerizign
- mesmerizingg
- mesmerizinng
- mesmeriznig
- mesmerizzing
- mesmerrizing
- mesmerziing
- mesmmerizing
- mesmreizing
- messmerizing
- mmesmerizing
- msemerizing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mesmerizing - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mesmerizing", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "memorizing". View pair
- 17 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #30,500 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.