opening
/ˈəʊ.pə.nɪŋ/
"opening" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“opening” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,229. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,229
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of open
Corpus desk
Index EN-opening · opening · English
opening · rank #1,229 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #1,229
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH meant
Nearest frequency peer: meant (-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 “opening”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- insurance
insurance
98,775 corpus weight
- majority
majority
98,774 corpus weight
- meant
meant
98,773 corpus weight
- opening
opening
98,772 corpus weight
- opinion
opinion
98,771 corpus weight
- physical
physical
98,770 corpus weight
What this shows “opening” 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 | opening |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈəʊ.pə.nɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “opening”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around opening (IPA /ˈəʊ.pə.nɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,229 among 1,431 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of open".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for opening, with forms such as "oepning", "opeinng", and "openign". 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, "owning", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English openynge, openande, openand, from Old English openiende, from Proto-West Germanic *opanōndī, from Proto-Germanic *upanōndz, present participle of *upanōną (“to open”), equivalent to open + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian iepenjend, Dutch… The correct English form is opening, spelled O-P-E-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of open
Etymology
From Middle English openynge, openande, openand, from Old English openiende, from Proto-West Germanic *opanōndī, from Proto-Germanic *upanōndz, present participle of *upanōną (“to open”), equivalent to open + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian iepenjend, Dutch openend, German öffnend, Swedish öppnande, Icelandic opnandi.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oepning
- opeinng
- openign
- openingg
- openinng
- opennig
- openning
- opneing
- oppening
- poening
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of opening - 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 "opening", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).