sounding
/ˈsaʊndɪŋ/
"sounding" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sounding” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,352. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,352
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The action of the verb to sound.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sounding · sounding · English
sounding · rank #8,352 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,352
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH snack
Nearest frequency peer: snack (-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 “sounding”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- shuttle
shuttle
91,652 corpus weight
- slope
slope
91,651 corpus weight
- snack
snack
91,650 corpus weight
- sounding
sounding
91,649 corpus weight
- spotlight
spotlight
91,647 corpus weight
- stabbed
stabbed
91,646 corpus weight
What this shows “sounding” 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 | sounding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sounding”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around sounding (IPA /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,352 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The action of the verb to sound.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for sounding, with forms such as "osunding", "sonuding", and "soudning". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "standing", "spending", "stunning", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing. The correct English form is sounding, spelled S-O-U-N-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The action of the verb to sound.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sounding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; […] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, […]
In the course of his soundings, Sir Herbert Walker had heard favourable reports of O.V.S. Bulleid, currently Principal Assistant to Gresley on the LNER.
Etymology
From sound (“produce a sound”) + -ing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- osunding
- sonuding
- soudning
- soundding
- soundign
- soundingg
- soundinng
- soundnig
- sounidng
- sounnding
- ssounding
- suonding
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sounding - 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 "sounding", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).