nauseating
"nauseating" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nauseating” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #41,273 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #41,273
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Causing a feeling of nausea; disgusting and revolting.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | nauseating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #41,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “nauseating” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for nauseating is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #41,273 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Causing a feeling of nausea; disgusting and revolting.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for nauseating, with forms such as "anuseating", "nasueating", and "nauesating". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is nauseating, spelled N-A-U-S-E-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Causing a feeling of nausea; disgusting and revolting.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: anuseating,nasueating,nauesating,nausaeting,nauseaitng,nauseatign,nauseatingg,nauseatinng,nauseatnig,nauseatting,nausetaing,nausseating,nnauseating,nuaseating
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of nauseating - 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 “nauseating”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is N-A-U-S-E-A-T-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.