reaching
/ˈɹiːt͡ʃɪŋ/
"reaching" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reaching” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #3,256. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,256
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of reach
Corpus desk
Index EN-reaching · reaching · English
reaching · rank #3,256 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,256
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH railway
Nearest frequency peer: railway (-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 “reaching”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- processing
processing
96,748 corpus weight
- qualified
qualified
96,747 corpus weight
- railway
railway
96,746 corpus weight
- reaching
reaching
96,745 corpus weight
- ridiculous
ridiculous
96,744 corpus weight
- sensitive
sensitive
96,743 corpus weight
What this shows “reaching” 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 | reaching |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɹiːt͡ʃɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,256 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “reaching”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around reaching (IPA /ˈɹiːt͡ʃɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,256 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of reach".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for reaching, with forms such as "eraching", "raeching", and "reacching". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "reading", "rearing", "reaping", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English reching, rechyng, recchinge, rechand, from Old English *rǣċende and reċċende (“reaching”), from Proto-Germanic *raikijandz, present participle of *raikijaną (“to stretch, reach”) and Proto-Germanic *rakjandz, present participle of *rakja… The correct English form is reaching, spelled R-E-A-C-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of reach
Etymology
From Middle English reching, rechyng, recchinge, rechand, from Old English *rǣċende and reċċende (“reaching”), from Proto-Germanic *raikijandz, present participle of *raikijaną (“to stretch, reach”) and Proto-Germanic *rakjandz, present participle of *rakjaną (“to stretch, straighten”). Equivalent to reach + -ing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eraching
- raeching
- reacching
- reachhing
- reachign
- reachingg
- reachinng
- reachnig
- reacihng
- reahcing
- recahing
- rreaching
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reaching - 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 "reaching", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).