showing
/ˈʃəʊɪŋ/
"showing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“showing” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,409. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,409
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of show
Corpus desk
Index EN-showing · showing · English
showing · rank #1,409 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,409
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shop
Nearest frequency peer: shop (-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 “showing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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rates
98,595 corpus weight
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responsible
98,594 corpus weight
- shop
shop
98,593 corpus weight
- showing
showing
98,592 corpus weight
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sick
98,591 corpus weight
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teacher
98,590 corpus weight
What this shows “showing” 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 | showing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈʃəʊɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “showing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around showing (IPA /ˈʃəʊɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,409 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of show".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for showing, with forms such as "hsowing", "shhowing", and "shoiwng". 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, "shown", "swing", "sowing", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English schewynge, schewand, schewande, schewende, from Old English sċēawiende, from Proto-West Germanic *skauwōndī, from Proto-Germanic *skawwōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *skawwōną (“to look, observe”), equivalent to show + -ing. The correct English form is showing, spelled S-H-O-W-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of show
Etymology
From Middle English schewynge, schewand, schewande, schewende, from Old English sċēawiende, from Proto-West Germanic *skauwōndī, from Proto-Germanic *skawwōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *skawwōną (“to look, observe”), equivalent to show + -ing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsowing
- shhowing
- shoiwng
- showign
- showingg
- showinng
- shownig
- showwing
- shwoing
- sohwing
- sshowing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of showing - 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 "showing", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).