tantalizing
"tantalizing" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tantalizing” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #41,408. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,408
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Teasing; tempting, especially that which is beyond reach.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tantalizing · tantalizing · English
tantalizing · rank #41,408 · 17 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,408
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH taffy
Nearest frequency peer: taffy (-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 “tantalizing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- sympathise
sympathise
58,596 corpus weight
- synchronize
synchronize
58,595 corpus weight
- taffy
taffy
58,594 corpus weight
- tantalizing
tantalizing
58,593 corpus weight
- Taos
Taos
58,592 corpus weight
- tarek
tarek
58,591 corpus weight
What this shows “tantalizing” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tantalizing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #41,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “tantalizing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around tantalizing, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #41,408 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Teasing; tempting, especially that which is beyond reach.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for tantalizing, with forms such as "atntalizing", "tanatlizing", and "tanntalizing". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is tantalizing, spelled T-A-N-T-A-L-I-Z-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Teasing; tempting, especially that which is beyond reach.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tantalizing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
...then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.
The tantalising theory that a fifth force of nature could exist has been given a boost thanks to unexpected wobbling by a subatomic particle, physicists have revealed.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- atntalizing
- tanatlizing
- tanntalizing
- tantailzing
- tantaliizng
- tantalizign
- tantalizingg
- tantalizinng
- tantaliznig
- tantalizzing
- tantallizing
- tantalziing
- tantlaizing
- tanttalizing
- tatnalizing
- tnatalizing
- ttantalizing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tantalizing - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).