quarrying
"quarrying" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quarrying” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,859. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,859
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The extraction of material from a quarry.
Corpus desk
Index EN-quarrying · quarrying · English
quarrying · rank #40,859 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,859
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH quakes
Nearest frequency peer: quakes (-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 “quarrying”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Pushkin
Pushkin
59,146 corpus weight
- pygmy
pygmy
59,145 corpus weight
- quakes
quakes
59,143 corpus weight
- quarrying
quarrying
59,142 corpus weight
- r's
r's
59,140 corpus weight
- rada
rada
59,138 corpus weight
What this shows “quarrying” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quarrying |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “quarrying”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around quarrying, anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,859 among 288 “Q” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for quarrying, with forms such as "qaurrying", "qquarrying", and "quarriyng". 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. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is quarrying, spelled Q-U-A-R-R-Y-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The extraction of material from a quarry.
- 2A small piece of stone chipped off any stone found in a quarry.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how quarrying appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In 1765 only 80 men were employed, and the annual output of slates did not exceed 1,000 tons, and large-scale quarrying was not begun by Lord Penrhyn until 1782.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qaurrying
- qquarrying
- quarriyng
- quarryign
- quarryingg
- quarryinng
- quarrynig
- quarryying
- quarying
- quaryring
- qurarying
- uqarrying
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of quarrying - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).