regulating
/ˈɹɛɡjəleɪtɪŋ/
"regulating" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“regulating” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,001. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,001
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of regulate
Corpus desk
Index EN-regulating · regulating · English
regulating · rank #14,001 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,001
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Reggie
Nearest frequency peer: Reggie (-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 “regulating”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- raj
raj
86,004 corpus weight
- rampant
rampant
86,003 corpus weight
- Reggie
Reggie
86,001 corpus weight
- regulating
regulating
86,000 corpus weight
- repairing
repairing
85,999 corpus weight
- replicate
replicate
85,997 corpus weight
What this shows “regulating” 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 | regulating |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈɹɛɡjəleɪtɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #14,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “regulating”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around regulating (IPA /ˈɹɛɡjəleɪtɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,001 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of regulate".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for regulating, with forms such as "ergulating", "reggulating", and "regluating". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "relating", "resulting", "regulation", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is regulating, spelled R-E-G-U-L-A-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of regulate
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ergulating
- reggulating
- regluating
- regualting
- regulaitng
- regulatign
- regulatingg
- regulatinng
- regulatnig
- regulatting
- regullating
- regultaing
- reuglating
- rgeulating
- rregulating
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of regulating - 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 "regulating", 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 (15 here; floor ≥5).