spitting
/ˈspɪtɪŋ/
"spitting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“spitting” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #15,705. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,705
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - expectoration
Corpus desk
Index EN-spitting · spitting · English
spitting · rank #15,705 · 11 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,705
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sobbing
Nearest frequency peer: sobbing (-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 “spitting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- slit
slit
84,299 corpus weight
- snapping
snapping
84,298 corpus weight
- sobbing
sobbing
84,297 corpus weight
- spitting
spitting
84,296 corpus weight
- starved
starved
84,295 corpus weight
- stirred
stirred
84,294 corpus weight
What this shows “spitting” 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 | spitting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈspɪtɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “spitting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around spitting (IPA /ˈspɪtɪŋ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,705 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for spitting, with forms such as "psitting", "siptting", and "spiting". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "suiting", "sporting", "spotting", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is spitting, spelled S-P-I-T-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1expectoration
- 2An appearance on the surface of melted silver or platinum allowed to cool slowly, jets of oxygen forming small cones and sometimes throwing up drops of molten metal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how spitting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Four brothers of the name of Smith, died with black spitting; all of them were stone-workers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psitting
- siptting
- spiting
- spititng
- spittign
- spittingg
- spittinng
- spittnig
- sppitting
- sptiting
- sspitting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of spitting - 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 "spitting", 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).