swallowing
"swallowing" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“swallowing” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,201. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,201
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - present participle and gerund of swallow
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | swallowing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #18,201 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “swallowing” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around swallowing, averb. Corpus frequency is #18,201 among 54,294 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of swallow".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for swallowing, with forms such as "sawllowing", "sswallowing", and "swalloiwng". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English swolwynge; by surface analysis, swallow + -ing. The correct English form is swallowing, spelled S-W-A-L-L-O-W-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of swallow
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English swolwynge; by surface analysis, swallow + -ing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sawllowing,sswallowing,swalloiwng,swallowign,swallowingg,swallowinng,swallownig,swallowwing,swallwoing,swalolwing,swalowing,swlalowing,swwallowing,wsallowing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of swallowing - 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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Using “swallowing”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-W-A-L-L-O-W-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.