resembling
/ɹɪˈzɛmblɪŋ/
"resembling" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“resembling” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,623. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,623
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of resemble
Corpus desk
Index EN-resembling · resembling · English
resembling · rank #14,623 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,623
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reno
Nearest frequency peer: reno (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “resembling”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Reeves
Reeves
85,381 corpus weight
- reigns
reigns
85,380 corpus weight
- reno
reno
85,379 corpus weight
- resembling
resembling
85,378 corpus weight
- residual
residual
85,377 corpus weight
- robe
robe
85,375 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “resembling” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | resembling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ɹɪˈzɛmblɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #14,623 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “resembling” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around resembling (IPA /ɹɪˈzɛmblɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,623 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of resemble".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for resembling, with forms such as "ersembling", "reesmbling", and "resebmling". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is resembling, spelled R-E-S-E-M-B-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of resemble
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ersembling
- reesmbling
- resebmling
- resembbling
- resembilng
- resemblign
- resemblingg
- resemblinng
- resemblling
- resemblnig
- resemlbing
- resemmbling
- resmebling
- ressembling
- rresembling
- rseembling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of resembling - 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
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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 (16 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- 16 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #14,623 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.