requiring
/ɹɪˈkwaɪə.ɹɪŋ/
"requiring" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“requiring” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #5,729 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #5,729
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - present participle and gerund of require
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 | requiring |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɹɪˈkwaɪə.ɹɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “requiring” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for requiring is 9 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɹɪˈkwaɪə.ɹɪŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,729 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "present participle and gerund of require".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for requiring, with forms such as "erquiring", "reqiuring", and "reqquiring". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "retiring", "recurring", "repairing", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is requiring, spelled R-E-Q-U-I-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of require
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: erquiring,reqiuring,reqquiring,requiirng,requirign,requiringg,requirinng,requirnig,requirring,requriing,reuqiring,rqeuiring,rrequiring
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of requiring - 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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Using “requiring”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-E-Q-U-I-R-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɹɪˈkwaɪə.ɹɪŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “retiring” - see the side-by-side comparison. requiring vs retiring
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.