responding
"responding" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“responding” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,408. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,408
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - response
Corpus desk
Index EN-responding · responding · English
responding · rank #6,408 · 16 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,408
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH reign
Nearest frequency peer: reign (-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 “responding”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- reed
reed
93,595 corpus weight
- reign
reign
93,594 corpus weight
- responding
responding
93,593 corpus weight
- retained
retained
93,592 corpus weight
- rises
rises
93,591 corpus weight
- saves
saves
93,590 corpus weight
What this shows “responding” 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 | responding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “responding”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around responding, anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,408 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how responding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nor were their ardent hopes disappointed; for in a short time the usual quietness of the day, with us, was broken in upon by the shout of success from the pursuing boats, followed by vehement respondings from the contiguous ship.
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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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).