smoothing
"smoothing" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“smoothing” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,645. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,645
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which something is made smooth.
Corpus desk
Index EN-smoothing · smoothing · English
smoothing · rank #27,645 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,645
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH smirk
Nearest frequency peer: smirk (-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 “smoothing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- sleazy
sleazy
72,360 corpus weight
- smirk
smirk
72,357 corpus weight
- smoothing
smoothing
72,356 corpus weight
- Smyth
Smyth
72,355 corpus weight
- snipe
snipe
72,353 corpus weight
- snuggle
snuggle
72,352 corpus weight
What this shows “smoothing” 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 | smoothing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “smoothing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around smoothing, anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,645 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for smoothing, with forms such as "msoothing", "smmoothing", and "smoohting". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "soothing", "shooting", "smoothie", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is smoothing, spelled S-M-O-O-T-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which something is made smooth.
- 2Monophthongization.
- 3creation of an approximating function that attempts to capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise or other fine-scale structures/rapid phenomena.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how smoothing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For, as I draw closer and closer to the end, I travel in the circle, nearer and nearer to the beginning. It seems to be one of the kind smoothings and preparings of the way.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- msoothing
- smmoothing
- smoohting
- smoothhing
- smoothign
- smoothingg
- smoothinng
- smoothnig
- smootihng
- smootthing
- smothing
- smotohing
- somothing
- ssmoothing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of smoothing - 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 "smoothing", 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).