smelting
"smelting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“smelting” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,423. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,423
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
Corpus desk
Index EN-smelting · smelting · English
smelting · rank #33,423 · 13 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,423
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH smalls
Nearest frequency peer: smalls (-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 “smelting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- slacks
slacks
66,581 corpus weight
- sleeveless
sleeveless
66,580 corpus weight
- smalls
smalls
66,579 corpus weight
- smelting
smelting
66,578 corpus weight
- snell
snell
66,577 corpus weight
- snowstorm
snowstorm
66,576 corpus weight
What this shows “smelting” 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 | smelting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #33,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “smelting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around smelting, anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,423 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for smelting, with forms such as "mselting", "semlting", and "smelitng". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "smiling", "spelling", "swelling", 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 smelting, spelled S-M-E-L-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how smelting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mselting
- semlting
- smelitng
- smellting
- smeltign
- smeltingg
- smeltinng
- smeltnig
- smeltting
- smetling
- smleting
- smmelting
- ssmelting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of smelting - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "smelting", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).