mountaineering
"mountaineering" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mountaineering” has 20 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,417. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,417
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The sport of climbing mountains.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mountaineering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #35,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mountaineering” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around mountaineering, anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,417 among 36,575 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The sport of climbing mountains.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for mountaineering, with forms such as "mmountaineering", "monutaineering", and "mounatineering". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mountaineer + -ing. The correct English form is mountaineering, spelled M-O-U-N-T-A-I-N-E-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The sport of climbing mountains.
Etymology
From mountaineer + -ing.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmountaineering
- monutaineering
- mounatineering
- mounntaineering
- mountaienering
- mountaineeirng
- mountaineerign
- mountaineeringg
- mountaineerinng
- mountaineernig
- mountaineerring
- mountainereing
- mountainering
- mountainneering
- mountanieering
- mountianeering
- mounttaineering
- moutnaineering
- muontaineering
- omuntaineering
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mountaineering - 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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Using “mountaineering”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-O-U-N-T-A-I-N-E-E-R-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.