reviving
"reviving" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“reviving” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,795. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,795
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A revival; a bringing back to life.
Corpus desk
Index EN-reviving · reviving · English
reviving · rank #22,795 · 12 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,795
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH restitution
Nearest frequency peer: restitution (-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 “reviving”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- repentance
repentance
77,209 corpus weight
- resonate
resonate
77,208 corpus weight
- restitution
restitution
77,207 corpus weight
- reviving
reviving
77,206 corpus weight
- rewritten
rewritten
77,205 corpus weight
- riddled
riddled
77,204 corpus weight
What this shows “reviving” 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 | reviving |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #22,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “reviving”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around reviving, anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,795 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A revival; a bringing back to life.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for reviving, with forms such as "erviving", "reivving", and "reviivng". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "revving", "revoking", "revolving", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is reviving, spelled R-E-V-I-V-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A revival; a bringing back to life.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how reviving appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I believe I may venture to say that I am not [mistaken] that where the divine life is implanted by the Spirit of the living God, that life admits of decrease and increase, admits of dreadful decays, and also of some blessed revivings.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- erviving
- reivving
- reviivng
- revivign
- revivingg
- revivinng
- revivnig
- revivving
- revviing
- revviving
- rreviving
- rveiving
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of reviving - 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 "reviving", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).