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
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - present participle and gerund of murmur
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) |
Where “murmuring” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around murmuring, averb. Corpus frequency is #38,984 among 36,575 “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
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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Using “murmuring”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-U-R-M-U-R-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “murdering” - see the side-by-side comparison. murmuring vs murdering
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
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.