shouting
/ˈʃaʊtɪŋ/
"shouting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shouting” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #7,501. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,501
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An instance of loud or highly audible acclamation, clamor, crying or uproar.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shouting · shouting · English
shouting · rank #7,501 · 12 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,501
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sexuality
Nearest frequency peer: sexuality (-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 “shouting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- scout
scout
92,503 corpus weight
- searched
searched
92,502 corpus weight
- sexuality
sexuality
92,501 corpus weight
- shouting
shouting
92,500 corpus weight
- slap
slap
92,499 corpus weight
- steak
steak
92,498 corpus weight
What this shows “shouting” 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 | shouting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʃaʊtɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “shouting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around shouting (IPA /ˈʃaʊtɪŋ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,501 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An instance of loud or highly audible acclamation, clamor, crying or uproar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for shouting, with forms such as "hsouting", "shhouting", and "shotuing". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "showing", "shoving", "sporting", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 shouting, spelled S-H-O-U-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An instance of loud or highly audible acclamation, clamor, crying or uproar.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsouting
- shhouting
- shotuing
- shouitng
- shoutign
- shoutingg
- shoutinng
- shoutnig
- shoutting
- shuoting
- sohuting
- sshouting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shouting - 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
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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).