Pershing
/ˈpɝʃɪŋ/
"pershing" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Pershing” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,120. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,120
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pershing · Pershing · English
Pershing · rank #32,120 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,120
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH permeability
Nearest frequency peer: permeability (-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 “Pershing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Pembrokeshi…
Pembrokeshire
67,884 corpus weight
- Peralta
Peralta
67,883 corpus weight
- permeability
permeability
67,882 corpus weight
- Pershing
Pershing
67,881 corpus weight
- pharmacolog…
pharmacological
67,880 corpus weight
- plano
plano
67,879 corpus weight
What this shows “Pershing” 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 | Pershing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɝʃɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Pershing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Pershing (IPA /ˈpɝʃɪŋ/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,120 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pershing, with forms such as "eprshing", "perhsing", and "perrshing". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "pushing", "pursuing", "phishing", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Pershing, spelled P-E-R-S-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A surname.
- 2A number of places in the United States:
- 3A number of places in the United States:
- 4A number of places in the United States:
- 5A number of places in the United States:
- 6A number of places in the United States:
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprshing
- perhsing
- perrshing
- pershhing
- pershign
- pershingg
- pershinng
- pershnig
- persihng
- persshing
- pesrhing
- ppershing
- preshing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pershing - 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 "Pershing", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).