skimming
"skimming" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“skimming” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #28,726. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,726
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of skim
Corpus desk
Index EN-skimming · skimming · English
skimming · rank #28,726 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,726
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH skew
Nearest frequency peer: skew (-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 “skimming”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- sketching
sketching
71,277 corpus weight
- skew
skew
71,276 corpus weight
- skimming
skimming
71,275 corpus weight
- smitten
smitten
71,273 corpus weight
- snappy
snappy
71,272 corpus weight
- sneaker
sneaker
71,271 corpus weight
What this shows “skimming” 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 | skimming |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,726 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “skimming”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around skimming, averb. Corpus frequency is #28,726 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of skim".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for skimming, with forms such as "ksimming", "sikmming", and "skimimng". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "summing", "swimming", "skipping", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From skim + -ing. The correct English form is skimming, spelled S-K-I-M-M-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of skim
Etymology
From skim + -ing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ksimming
- sikmming
- skimimng
- skiming
- skimmign
- skimmingg
- skimminng
- skimmnig
- skkimming
- skmiming
- sskimming
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of skimming - 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 "skimming", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).