moaning
"moaning" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“moaning” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,534. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,534
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The utterance of a moan.
Corpus desk
Index EN-moaning · moaning · English
moaning · rank #16,534 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,534
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH miraculous
Nearest frequency peer: miraculous (-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 “moaning”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- migrate
migrate
83,470 corpus weight
- mildly
mildly
83,469 corpus weight
- miraculous
miraculous
83,468 corpus weight
- moaning
moaning
83,467 corpus weight
- MoS
MoS
83,465 corpus weight
- mourn
mourn
83,463 corpus weight
What this shows “moaning” 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 | moaning |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “moaning”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around moaning, anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,534 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The utterance of a moan.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for moaning, with forms such as "maoning", "mmoaning", and "moainng". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "moving", "mowing", "morning", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 moaning, spelled M-O-A-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The utterance of a moan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how moaning appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
the moanings of the wounded men
But I should turn mine ears and hear The moanings of the homeless sea, The sound of streams that swift or slow Draw down Æonian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be; […]
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- maoning
- mmoaning
- moainng
- moanign
- moaningg
- moaninng
- moannig
- moanning
- monaing
- omaning
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of moaning - 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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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 (10 here; floor ≥5).