stumbling
/ˈstʌmblɪŋ/
"stumbling" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stumbling” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,438. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,438
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of stumble
Corpus desk
Index EN-stumbling · stumbling · English
stumbling · rank #18,438 · 15 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,438
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH staffed
Nearest frequency peer: staffed (-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 “stumbling”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Spence
Spence
81,566 corpus weight
- spills
spills
81,565 corpus weight
- staffed
staffed
81,564 corpus weight
- stumbling
stumbling
81,563 corpus weight
- Sweeney
Sweeney
81,560 corpus weight
- synth
synth
81,559 corpus weight
What this shows “stumbling” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stumbling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈstʌmblɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “stumbling”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around stumbling (IPA /ˈstʌmblɪŋ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,438 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of stumble".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for stumbling, with forms such as "sstumbling", "stmubling", and "sttumbling". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is stumbling, spelled S-T-U-M-B-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of stumble
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sstumbling
- stmubling
- sttumbling
- stubmling
- stumbbling
- stumbilng
- stumblign
- stumblingg
- stumblinng
- stumblling
- stumblnig
- stumlbing
- stummbling
- sutmbling
- tsumbling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stumbling - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).