revolving
"revolving" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“revolving” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,017. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,017
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of something that revolves or turns.
Corpus desk
Index EN-revolving · revolving · English
revolving · rank #17,017 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,017
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH revolver
Nearest frequency peer: revolver (-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 “revolving”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- reliant
reliant
82,987 corpus weight
- reputable
reputable
82,986 corpus weight
- revolver
revolver
82,985 corpus weight
- revolving
revolving
82,984 corpus weight
- Ricardo
Ricardo
82,983 corpus weight
- rink
rink
82,982 corpus weight
What this shows “revolving” 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 | revolving |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #17,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “revolving”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around revolving, anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,017 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for revolving, with forms such as "ervolving", "reovlving", and "revloving". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "revving", "removing", "reviving", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is revolving, spelled R-E-V-O-L-V-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of something that revolves or turns.
- 2The process where you either take an non-closing linear shape or a 2D shape, take a 3D axis as the pivot, and basically revolve the linear shape around the axis to get a 3D object. (e.g. taking a 2D triangle and turning it into a cone, taking a circle and turning it into a sphere, taking a long U-shape and turning it into a test tube object)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how revolving appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The rotations of memory are the commencement of those wonderful revolvings of the intellectual faculties by which the process of reason is carried on.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ervolving
- reovlving
- revloving
- revolivng
- revollving
- revolvign
- revolvingg
- revolvinng
- revolvnig
- revolvving
- revovling
- revvolving
- rrevolving
- rveolving
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of revolving - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).