rationing
"rationing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rationing” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #28,684. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,684
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A ration.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rationing · rationing · English
rationing · rank #28,684 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #28,684
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH raisin
Nearest frequency peer: raisin (-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 “rationing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- quinoa
quinoa
71,321 corpus weight
- rabble
rabble
71,320 corpus weight
- raisin
raisin
71,318 corpus weight
- rationing
rationing
71,317 corpus weight
- reappear
reappear
71,316 corpus weight
- rearrange
rearrange
71,315 corpus weight
What this shows “rationing” 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 | rationing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “rationing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around rationing, anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,684 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for rationing, with forms such as "artioning", "raitoning", and "ratinoing". 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. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "raining", 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is rationing, spelled R-A-T-I-O-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A ration.
- 2Controlled distribution of scarce resources such as food or fuel; used typically in wartime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rationing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The drastic rationing of paper enforced by the paper control, has made it necessary for us to adapt ourselves to the altered conditions.
After petrol rationing ended in 1952, the BTC was aware that more swingeing cuts had to be made, and a sinister message was conveyed by the loss of the meandering 38-mile route from Blisworth to Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1952, and the 25-mile Abergavenny-Merthyr Heads of the Valleys line in January 1958.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- artioning
- raitoning
- ratinoing
- ratioinng
- rationign
- rationingg
- rationinng
- rationnig
- rationning
- ratoining
- rattioning
- rrationing
- rtaioning
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rationing - 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 "rationing", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (13 here; floor ≥5).