persuading
"persuading" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“persuading” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #25,878. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,878
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An act of persuasion.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | persuading |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #25,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “persuading” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around persuading, anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,878 among 46,516 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An act of persuasion.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for persuading, with forms such as "eprsuading", "perrsuading", and "persauding". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is persuading, spelled P-E-R-S-U-A-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An act of persuasion.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprsuading
- perrsuading
- persauding
- perssuading
- persuadding
- persuadign
- persuadingg
- persuadinng
- persuadnig
- persuaidng
- persudaing
- perusading
- pesruading
- ppersuading
- presuading
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of persuading - 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 “persuading”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-E-R-S-U-A-D-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.