staking
"staking" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“staking” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,033. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,033
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of stake
Corpus desk
Index EN-staking · staking · English
staking · rank #33,033 · 11 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,033
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Srinagar
Nearest frequency peer: Srinagar (-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 “staking”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- sportswear
sportswear
66,971 corpus weight
- squeak
squeak
66,970 corpus weight
- Srinagar
Srinagar
66,969 corpus weight
- staking
staking
66,968 corpus weight
- steakhouse
steakhouse
66,967 corpus weight
- steers
steers
66,966 corpus weight
What this shows “staking” 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 | staking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,033 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “staking”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around staking, averb. Corpus frequency is #33,033 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of stake".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for staking, with forms such as "satking", "sstaking", and "staikng". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sting", "string", "Stalin", 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 stake + -ing. The correct English form is staking, spelled S-T-A-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of stake
Etymology
From stake + -ing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- satking
- sstaking
- staikng
- stakign
- stakingg
- stakinng
- stakking
- staknig
- stkaing
- sttaking
- tsaking
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of staking - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "staking", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).