pausing
"pausing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pausing” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,593. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,593
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A pause.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pausing · pausing · English
pausing · rank #27,593 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,593
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH particulate
Nearest frequency peer: particulate (-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 “pausing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- PAPI
PAPI
72,410 corpus weight
- particulate
particulate
72,409 corpus weight
- pausing
pausing
72,408 corpus weight
- penicillin
penicillin
72,407 corpus weight
- perfecting
perfecting
72,406 corpus weight
- petal
petal
72,405 corpus weight
What this shows “pausing” 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 | pausing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #27,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “pausing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pausing, anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,593 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A pause.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pausing, with forms such as "apusing", "pasuing", and "pauisng". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "paying", "posing", "paving", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is pausing, spelled P-A-U-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A pause.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pausing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; […] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apusing
- pasuing
- pauisng
- pausign
- pausingg
- pausinng
- pausnig
- paussing
- ppausing
- puasing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pausing - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pausing", 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).