regretting
"regretting" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“regretting” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,265. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,265
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is regretted.
Corpus desk
Index EN-regretting · regretting · English
regretting · rank #27,265 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #27,265
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH redacted
Nearest frequency peer: redacted (-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 “regretting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- rarer
rarer
72,739 corpus weight
- RCMP
RCMP
72,738 corpus weight
- redacted
redacted
72,737 corpus weight
- regretting
regretting
72,736 corpus weight
- renovate
renovate
72,734 corpus weight
- respiration
respiration
72,733 corpus weight
What this shows “regretting” 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 | regretting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #27,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “regretting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around regretting, anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,265 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act by which something is regretted.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for regretting, with forms such as "ergretting", "regertting", and "reggretting". 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, "retreating", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is regretting, spelled R-E-G-R-E-T-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is regretted.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how regretting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And for all I then declined / O the regrettings infinite / When the night-processions flit / Through the mind!
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ergretting
- regertting
- reggretting
- regreting
- regretitng
- regrettign
- regrettingg
- regrettinng
- regrettnig
- regrretting
- regrteting
- rergetting
- rgeretting
- rregretting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of regretting - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "regretting", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).