shattering
"shattering" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shattering” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,456. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,456
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of something that shatters; the shattered material.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shattering · shattering · English
shattering · rank #19,456 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,456
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shelly
Nearest frequency peer: shelly (+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 “shattering”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- scuba
scuba
80,549 corpus weight
- seamless
seamless
80,548 corpus weight
- shattering
shattering
80,545 corpus weight
- shelly
shelly
80,544 corpus weight
- Sheppard
Sheppard
80,543 corpus weight
- shite
shite
80,542 corpus weight
What this shows “shattering” 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 | shattering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #19,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “shattering”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around shattering, anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,456 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of something that shatters; the shattered material.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for shattering, with forms such as "hsattering", "sahttering", and "shatering". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "stuttering", "sheltering", "sputtering", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is shattering, spelled S-H-A-T-T-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of something that shatters; the shattered material.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shattering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It seems reasonable to conjecture that there is some property that is responsible for all the shatterings, because the operations that have produced the shatterings have all been similar (droppings of glass) […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsattering
- sahttering
- shatering
- shatetring
- shatteirng
- shatterign
- shatteringg
- shatterinng
- shatternig
- shatterring
- shattreing
- shhattering
- shtatering
- sshattering
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shattering - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "shattering", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).