swearing
"swearing" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“swearing” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,430. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,430
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of swear
Corpus desk
Index EN-swearing · swearing · English
swearing · rank #14,430 · 12 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,430
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Suzanne
Nearest frequency peer: Suzanne (-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 “swearing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- subset
subset
85,574 corpus weight
- suspense
suspense
85,573 corpus weight
- Suzanne
Suzanne
85,572 corpus weight
- swearing
swearing
85,571 corpus weight
- swore
swore
85,570 corpus weight
- syntax
syntax
85,569 corpus weight
What this shows “swearing” 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 | swearing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “swearing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around swearing, averb. Corpus frequency is #14,430 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of swear".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for swearing, with forms such as "sewaring", "sswearing", and "swaering". 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, "sweeping", "swelling", "sweating", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English sweryng; equivalent to swear + -ing. The correct English form is swearing, spelled S-W-E-A-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of swear
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how swearing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
Etymology
From Middle English sweryng; equivalent to swear + -ing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- sewaring
- sswearing
- swaering
- sweairng
- swearign
- swearingg
- swearinng
- swearnig
- swearring
- sweraing
- swwearing
- wsearing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of swearing - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "swearing", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).