plucking
/ˈplʌkɪŋ/
"plucking" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“plucking” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #34,638. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,638
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of pluck
Corpus desk
Index EN-plucking · plucking · English
plucking · rank #34,638 · 13 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,638
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Plummer
Nearest frequency peer: Plummer (+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 “plucking”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- pimps
pimps
65,367 corpus weight
- pinkie
pinkie
65,366 corpus weight
- placer
placer
65,365 corpus weight
- plucking
plucking
65,363 corpus weight
- Plummer
Plummer
65,362 corpus weight
- pollute
pollute
65,361 corpus weight
What this shows “plucking” 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 | plucking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈplʌkɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #34,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “plucking”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around plucking (IPA /ˈplʌkɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #34,638 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of pluck".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for plucking, with forms such as "lpucking", "plcuking", and "pllucking". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "puking", "plumbing", "plugging", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is plucking, spelled P-L-U-C-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of pluck
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lpucking
- plcuking
- pllucking
- pluccking
- plucikng
- pluckign
- pluckingg
- pluckinng
- pluckking
- plucknig
- plukcing
- pplucking
- pulcking
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of plucking - 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 "plucking", 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).