scraping
"scraping" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“scraping” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,949. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,949
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The sound or action of something being scraped.
Corpus desk
Index EN-scraping · scraping · English
scraping · rank #18,949 · 12 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,949
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH scarcely
Nearest frequency peer: scarcely (-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 “scraping”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- saline
saline
81,055 corpus weight
- scarcely
scarcely
81,053 corpus weight
- scraping
scraping
81,052 corpus weight
- serie
serie
81,051 corpus weight
- shipbuilding
shipbuilding
81,050 corpus weight
- shiva
shiva
81,049 corpus weight
What this shows “scraping” 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 | scraping |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “scraping”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around scraping, anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,949 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for scraping, with forms such as "csraping", "scarping", and "sccraping". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "shaping", "screwing", "spraying", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English scrapinge, equivalent to scrape + -ing. The correct English form is scraping, spelled S-C-R-A-P-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The sound or action of something being scraped.
- 2Something removed by being scraped.
- 3Automated collection of data, data scraping.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how scraping appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We explored the basement, wherein she had so often heard heavy footsteps, thuddings, and scrapings.
the scrapings of roads and ditches
Etymology
From Middle English scrapinge, equivalent to scrape + -ing.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- csraping
- scarping
- sccraping
- scraipng
- scrapign
- scrapingg
- scrapinng
- scrapnig
- scrpaing
- scrraping
- srcaping
- sscraping
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of scraping - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "scraping", 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).