mooring
"mooring" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mooring” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,415. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,415
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A place to moor a vessel.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mooring · mooring · English
mooring · rank #35,415 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,415
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Montpellier
Nearest frequency peer: Montpellier (-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 “mooring”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Minas
Minas
64,590 corpus weight
- monogamous
monogamous
64,589 corpus weight
- Montessori
Montessori
64,588 corpus weight
- Montpellier
Montpellier
64,587 corpus weight
- mooring
mooring
64,586 corpus weight
- mountaineer…
mountaineering
64,584 corpus weight
What this shows “mooring” 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 | mooring |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #35,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “mooring”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mooring, anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,415 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mooring, with forms such as "mmooring", "mooirng", and "moorign". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Morin", "moving", "mowing", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is mooring, spelled M-O-O-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A place to moor a vessel.
- 2The act of securing a vessel with a cable or anchor etc.
- 3Something to which one adheres, or the means that helps one to maintain a stable position and keep one's identity - moral, intellectual, political, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mooring appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Then did the comet break loose from his moorings and the eclipse roamed about the sky, and down on the earth did Death’s three children—Famine, Pestilence, and Drought—come out to feed.
On the Lincolnshire side of the Humber, the Pier Station at New Holland was put out of action when the ferry boat plying to and from Hull broke loose from its moorings.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmooring
- mooirng
- moorign
- mooringg
- moorinng
- moornig
- moorring
- moring
- moroing
- omoring
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mooring - 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 "mooring", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).