surveying
/sɚˈveɪ.ɪŋ/
"surveying" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“surveying” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #18,965 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #18,965
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The applied science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | surveying |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /sɚˈveɪ.ɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #18,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “surveying” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for surveying is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /sɚˈveɪ.ɪŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #18,965 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The applied science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for surveying, with forms such as "sruveying", "ssurveying", and "surevying". 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From survey + -ing. The correct English form is surveying, spelled S-U-R-V-E-Y-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The applied science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them.
Etymology
From survey + -ing.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sruveying,ssurveying,surevying,surrveying,surveiyng,surveyign,surveyingg,surveyinng,surveynig,surveyying,survveying,survyeing,suvreying,usrveying
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of surveying - 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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Using “surveying”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-U-R-V-E-Y-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /sɚˈveɪ.ɪŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.