sickening
/ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/
"sickening" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sickening” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,462. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,462
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of sicken
Corpus desk
Index EN-sickening · sickening · English
sickening · rank #19,462 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,462
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Siberian
Nearest frequency peer: Siberian (-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 “sickening”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- shite
shite
80,542 corpus weight
- shoreline
shoreline
80,541 corpus weight
- Siberian
Siberian
80,540 corpus weight
- sickening
sickening
80,539 corpus weight
- silhouette
silhouette
80,537 corpus weight
- slug
slug
80,536 corpus weight
What this shows “sickening” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sickening |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sickening”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around sickening (IPA /ˈsɪk(ə)nɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #19,462 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of sicken".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for sickening, with forms such as "isckening", "scikening", and "sicckening". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: By surface analysis, sicken + -ing. The correct English form is sickening, spelled S-I-C-K-E-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of sicken
Etymology
By surface analysis, sicken + -ing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- isckening
- scikening
- sicckening
- sicekning
- sickeinng
- sickenign
- sickeningg
- sickeninng
- sickennig
- sickenning
- sickkening
- sickneing
- sikcening
- ssickening
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sickening - 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 "sickening", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).