sputtering
"sputtering" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sputtering” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,533. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,533
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A noise that sputters.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sputtering · sputtering · English
sputtering · rank #35,533 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,533
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH spurt
Nearest frequency peer: spurt (-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 “sputtering”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- spool
spool
64,471 corpus weight
- sprouting
sprouting
64,470 corpus weight
- spurt
spurt
64,469 corpus weight
- sputtering
sputtering
64,468 corpus weight
- SSA
SSA
64,467 corpus weight
- stencil
stencil
64,465 corpus weight
What this shows “sputtering” 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 | sputtering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #35,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “sputtering”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around sputtering, anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,533 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for sputtering, with forms such as "psuttering", "spputtering", and "sptutering". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "stuttering", "scattering", "shattering", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is sputtering, spelled S-P-U-T-T-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A noise that sputters.
- 2The ejection of atoms from the surface of a solid or liquid following bombardment with ions, atoms or molecules; used to prepare a thin layer of material on an object.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sputtering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The women of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, seated in the rows where the first violins are typically located, contributed an array of haunting vocal sounds: hushed hums, sustained high tones, sputterings and more.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- psuttering
- spputtering
- sptutering
- sputering
- sputetring
- sputteirng
- sputterign
- sputteringg
- sputterinng
- sputternig
- sputterring
- sputtreing
- ssputtering
- supttering
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of sputtering - 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 "sputtering", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).