murmuring
"murmuring" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“murmuring” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #38,984. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,984
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of murmur
Corpus desk
Index EN-murmuring · murmuring · English
murmuring · rank #38,984 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #38,984
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mulholland
Nearest frequency peer: Mulholland (-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 “murmuring”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- mucous
mucous
61,019 corpus weight
- Mulholland
Mulholland
61,018 corpus weight
- murmuring
murmuring
61,017 corpus weight
- Myer
Myer
61,015 corpus weight
- mythos
mythos
61,014 corpus weight
- NAA
NAA
61,013 corpus weight
What this shows “murmuring” 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 | murmuring |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,984 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “murmuring”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around murmuring, averb. Corpus frequency is #38,984 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of murmur".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for murmuring, with forms such as "mmurmuring", "mrumuring", and "mumruring". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "murdering", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is murmuring, spelled M-U-R-M-U-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of murmur
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how murmuring appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smokes of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmurmuring
- mrumuring
- mumruring
- murmmuring
- murmruing
- murmuirng
- murmurign
- murmuringg
- murmurinng
- murmurnig
- murmurring
- murrmuring
- murumring
- umrmuring
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of murmuring - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "murmuring", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).