surpassing
"surpassing" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“surpassing” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #23,410. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,410
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Becoming superior to others; becoming excellent; exceptional; exceeding.
Corpus desk
Index EN-surpassing · surpassing · English
surpassing · rank #23,410 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #23,410
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH swirling
Nearest frequency peer: swirling (+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 “surpassing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- stereotypic…
stereotypical
76,595 corpus weight
- stupidest
stupidest
76,593 corpus weight
- surpassing
surpassing
76,591 corpus weight
- swirling
swirling
76,590 corpus weight
- Sy
Sy
76,589 corpus weight
- Tarzan
Tarzan
76,588 corpus weight
What this shows “surpassing” 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 | surpassing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #23,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “surpassing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around surpassing, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #23,410 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Becoming superior to others; becoming excellent; exceptional; exceeding.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for surpassing, with forms such as "srupassing", "ssurpassing", and "suprassing". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "surprising", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is surpassing, spelled S-U-R-P-A-S-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Becoming superior to others; becoming excellent; exceptional; exceeding.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how surpassing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Yet once again," exclaimed he, passionately, "let me gaze on that beautiful and beloved face! let me see if sorrow has cast a shadow on its surpassing loveliness! I will not let her know how near I am, and how wretched! No, in secret and in silence will I look upon her once more; and then, farewell for ever!"
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srupassing
- ssurpassing
- suprassing
- surapssing
- surpasing
- surpasisng
- surpassign
- surpassingg
- surpassinng
- surpassnig
- surppassing
- surpsasing
- surrpassing
- usrpassing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surpassing - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).