sprinkling
"sprinkling" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sprinkling” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #30,240. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,240
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The action of the verb to sprinkle.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sprinkling · sprinkling · English
sprinkling · rank #30,240 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,240
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH SSI
Nearest frequency peer: SSI (+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 “sprinkling”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- socializing
socializing
69,765 corpus weight
- soiled
soiled
69,764 corpus weight
- soundly
soundly
69,763 corpus weight
- sprinkling
sprinkling
69,761 corpus weight
- SSI
SSI
69,760 corpus weight
- stifling
stifling
69,757 corpus weight
What this shows “sprinkling” 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 | sprinkling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #30,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sprinkling”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around sprinkling, anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,240 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for sprinkling, with forms such as "psrinkling", "spirnkling", and "spprinkling". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "sprinting", "shrinking", "springing", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is sprinkling, spelled S-P-R-I-N-K-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The action of the verb to sprinkle.
- 2A small thinly distributed amount, e.g. of some liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled on to something.
- 3A light shower of rain.
- 4A scattering.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sprinkling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Among the devotees […] were persons who suffered from loathsome skin diseases, such as smallpox, abscesses, and the itch; and among them there was a fair sprinkling of debauchees, who had drunk themselves nearly blind and hoped to recover the use of their precious eyes by parading for a month in this curious mantle.
It notes: "The Welsh Government's view is that genuine 'levelling up' cannot simply mean a sprinkling of new, ad hoc rail projects decided in Whitehall, it has to be part of a strategic approach to promoting growth in all parts of the UK."
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psrinkling
- spirnkling
- spprinkling
- spriknling
- sprinkilng
- sprinkkling
- sprinklign
- sprinklingg
- sprinklinng
- sprinklling
- sprinklnig
- sprinlking
- sprinnkling
- sprnikling
- sprrinkling
- srpinkling
- ssprinkling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sprinkling - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).