responding
"responding" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“responding” is a regularly-used English word, ranked #6,408 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,408
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - response
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 | responding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “responding” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for responding is 10 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #6,408 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "response".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for responding, with forms such as "ersponding", "repsonding", and "resopnding". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "respondent", "resounding", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is responding, spelled R-E-S-P-O-N-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1response
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ersponding,repsonding,resopnding,respnoding,respodning,respondding,respondign,respondingg,respondinng,respondnig,responidng,responnding,respponding,ressponding,rresponding,rseponding
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of responding - 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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Using “responding”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-E-S-P-O-N-D-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “respondent” - see the side-by-side comparison. responding vs respondent
- 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.