thawing
"thawing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“thawing” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #43,414. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,414
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of thaw
Corpus desk
Index EN-thawing · thawing · English
thawing · rank #43,414 · 11 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,414
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Thales
Nearest frequency peer: Thales (-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 “thawing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- terse
terse
56,590 corpus weight
- Thackeray
Thackeray
56,589 corpus weight
- Thales
Thales
56,588 corpus weight
- thawing
thawing
56,587 corpus weight
- thermonucle…
thermonuclear
56,586 corpus weight
- thinnest
thinnest
56,585 corpus weight
What this shows “thawing” 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 | thawing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #43,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “thawing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around thawing, averb. Corpus frequency is #43,414 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "present participle and gerund of thaw".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for thawing, with forms such as "htawing", "tahwing", and "thaiwng". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "thing", "trading", "tracing", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From thaw + -ing. The correct English form is thawing, spelled T-H-A-W-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of thaw
Etymology
From thaw + -ing.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htawing
- tahwing
- thaiwng
- thawign
- thawingg
- thawinng
- thawnig
- thawwing
- thhawing
- thwaing
- tthawing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of thawing - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).