starving
/ˈstɑɹvɪŋ/
"starving" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“starving” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,824. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,824
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of starve
Corpus desk
Index EN-starving · starving · English
starving · rank #9,824 · 13 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,824
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stall
Nearest frequency peer: stall (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “starving”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Springfield
Springfield
90,180 corpus weight
- stained
stained
90,179 corpus weight
- stall
stall
90,178 corpus weight
- starving
starving
90,177 corpus weight
- strap
strap
90,176 corpus weight
- subjective
subjective
90,175 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “starving” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | starving |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈstɑɹvɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “starving” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around starving (IPA /ˈstɑɹvɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,824 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of starve".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for starving, with forms such as "satrving", "sstarving", and "starivng". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "string", "staying", "stating", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 starving, spelled S-T-A-R-V-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of starve
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how starving appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced co…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- satrving
- sstarving
- starivng
- starrving
- starvign
- starvingg
- starvinng
- starvnig
- starvving
- stavring
- straving
- sttarving
- tsarving
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of starving - 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 "starving", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "starving" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "string". View pair
- 13 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #9,824 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "S" letter cohort. S–Z browse
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.