petitioning
"petitioning" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“petitioning” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #39,955. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,955
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The act of making a petition or appeal.
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 | petitioning |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #39,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “petitioning” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around petitioning, anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,955 among 46,516 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of making a petition or appeal.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for petitioning, with forms such as "eptitioning", "peittioning", and "petiitoning". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "positioning", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is petitioning, spelled P-E-T-I-T-I-O-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of making a petition or appeal.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eptitioning,peittioning,petiitoning,petitinoing,petitioinng,petitionign,petitioningg,petitioninng,petitionnig,petitionning,petitoining,petittioning,pettiioning,pettitioning,ppetitioning,pteitioning
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of petitioning - 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 “petitioning”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-E-T-I-T-I-O-N-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “positioning” - see the side-by-side comparison. petitioning vs positioning
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
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.