nauseating
"nauseating" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“nauseating” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #41,273. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,273
- frequency rank, English
- 1,534
- “N” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Causing a feeling of nausea; disgusting and revolting.
Corpus desk
Index EN-nauseating · nauseating · English
nauseating · rank #41,273 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,273
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,534
- PHOTO-FINISH nationalizati…
Nearest frequency peer: nationalization (-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 “nauseating”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Murat
Murat
58,731 corpus weight
- nationaliza…
nationalization
58,729 corpus weight
- nauseating
nauseating
58,728 corpus weight
- Neff
Neff
58,727 corpus weight
- nettle
nettle
58,725 corpus weight
- Newry
Newry
58,724 corpus weight
What this shows “nauseating” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| 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) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “nauseating”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around nauseating, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #41,273 among 1,534 “N” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how nauseating appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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