rousing
/ˈɹaʊzɪŋ/
"rousing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rousing” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #29,819. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,819
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - That rouses or excites.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rousing · rousing · English
rousing · rank #29,819 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,819
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Rohit
Nearest frequency peer: Rohit (-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 “rousing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Riga
Riga
70,185 corpus weight
- roddy
roddy
70,184 corpus weight
- Rohit
Rohit
70,183 corpus weight
- rousing
rousing
70,182 corpus weight
- roving
roving
70,181 corpus weight
- SaaS
SaaS
70,180 corpus weight
What this shows “rousing” 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 | rousing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈɹaʊzɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,819 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “rousing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around rousing (IPA /ˈɹaʊzɪŋ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,819 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "That rouses or excites.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for rousing, with forms such as "orusing", "rosuing", and "rouisng". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ruling", "rowing", "roving", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is rousing, spelled R-O-U-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1That rouses or excites.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rousing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
rousing music
But he still saw his side produce a rousing display which owed much to their lauded prowess from set-pieces, despite Uefa regulations meaning the pitch had to be widened and, in the process, the run-up area for Delap's long throws reduced.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orusing
- rosuing
- rouisng
- rousign
- rousingg
- rousinng
- rousnig
- roussing
- rrousing
- ruosing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rousing - 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 "rousing", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).