tampering
"tampering" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tampering” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #23,123. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,123
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of one who tampers.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tampering · tampering · English
tampering · rank #23,123 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,123
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tamara
Nearest frequency peer: Tamara (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “tampering”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Sulphur
Sulphur
76,883 corpus weight
- tacky
tacky
76,880 corpus weight
- Tamara
Tamara
76,879 corpus weight
- tampering
tampering
76,878 corpus weight
- terminus
terminus
76,875 corpus weight
- Tessa
Tessa
76,874 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tampering” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tampering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #23,123 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tampering” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around tampering, anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,123 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of one who tampers.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for tampering, with forms such as "atmpering", "tamepring", and "tammpering". 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 its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is tampering, spelled T-A-M-P-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who tampers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tampering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Despicable trickery at elections; under-handed tamperings with public officers; cowardly attacks upon opponents, with scurrilous newspapers for shields, and hired pens for daggers[…]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atmpering
- tamepring
- tammpering
- tampeirng
- tamperign
- tamperingg
- tamperinng
- tampernig
- tamperring
- tamppering
- tampreing
- tapmering
- tmapering
- ttampering
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tampering - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tampering", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (14 here; floor ≥5).
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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.