thanking
"thanking" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“thanking” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,649. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,649
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act by which thanks are given; thanks.
Corpus desk
Index EN-thanking · thanking · English
thanking · rank #14,649 · 13 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,649
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tex
Nearest frequency peer: Tex (-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 “thanking”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- TC
TC
85,354 corpus weight
- Tex
Tex
85,353 corpus weight
- thanking
thanking
85,352 corpus weight
- Tibet
Tibet
85,351 corpus weight
- toledo
toledo
85,350 corpus weight
- tread
tread
85,349 corpus weight
What this shows “thanking” 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 | thanking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #14,649 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “thanking”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around thanking, anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,649 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act by which thanks are given; thanks.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for thanking, with forms such as "htanking", "tahnking", and "thakning". 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. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "thawing", "thinking", "tracking", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is thanking, spelled T-H-A-N-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act by which thanks are given; thanks.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thanking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1484, William Caxton, The Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope, Book 3, “The Lyon & the pastour or herdman,” And therfore this is notary and trewe that al maner of folke ought to rendre and gyue thankynges grace and mercye to theyre good doers
Many and hearty thankings to you both.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htanking
- tahnking
- thakning
- thanikng
- thankign
- thankingg
- thankinng
- thankking
- thanknig
- thannking
- thhanking
- thnaking
- tthanking
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of thanking - 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 "thanking", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).