thinning
"thinning" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“thinning” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,337. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,337
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Process of removing plants or parts of plants to facilitate the growth of other plants
Corpus desk
Index EN-thinning · thinning · English
thinning · rank #24,337 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,337
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tentatively
Nearest frequency peer: tentatively (-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 “thinning”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- tay
tay
75,666 corpus weight
- tentatively
tentatively
75,665 corpus weight
- thinning
thinning
75,664 corpus weight
- thrice
thrice
75,663 corpus weight
- Thu
Thu
75,662 corpus weight
- touchy
touchy
75,661 corpus weight
What this shows “thinning” 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 | thinning |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,337 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “thinning”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around thinning, anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,337 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for thinning, with forms such as "htinning", "thhinning", and "thining". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "twinning", "tanning", "thinking", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is thinning, spelled T-H-I-N-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Process of removing plants or parts of plants to facilitate the growth of other plants
- 2Wood, leaves, or other plant parts removed during the process of thinning
- 3The action or result of reducing thickness, density, or number
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thinning appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The trimming, pruning and thinning must be managed with care. Some need more thinning than others.
but with a suitable mixture of early and late maturing kinds, the young hickories, ashs and larches can be utilized as thinnings, at a profit. In estimating the value of the thinnings upon the basis of Prof. Sargent's estimate of the acreage yield of hoop poles from hickory plantations,
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- htinning
- thhinning
- thining
- thininng
- thinnign
- thinningg
- thinninng
- thinnnig
- thnining
- tihnning
- tthinning
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of thinning - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "thinning", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).