narrowing
"narrowing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“narrowing” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #21,009. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,009
- frequency rank, English
- 24,391
- “N” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Present participle and gerund of narrow.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | narrowing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,009 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “narrowing” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around narrowing, averb. Corpus frequency is #21,009 among 24,391 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Present participle and gerund of narrow.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for narrowing, with forms such as "anrrowing", "narorwing", and "narowing". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is narrowing, spelled N-A-R-R-O-W-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Present participle and gerund of narrow.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- anrrowing
- narorwing
- narowing
- narroiwng
- narrowign
- narrowingg
- narrowinng
- narrownig
- narrowwing
- narrwoing
- nnarrowing
- nrarowing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of narrowing - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “narrowing”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is N-A-R-R-O-W-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.