touring
/ˈtʊəɹɪŋ/
"touring" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“touring” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,496. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,496
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Working for a short time in different places.
Corpus desk
Index EN-touring · touring · English
touring · rank #8,496 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,496
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tomb
Nearest frequency peer: tomb (-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 “touring”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- tens
tens
91,508 corpus weight
- thirteen
thirteen
91,507 corpus weight
- tomb
tomb
91,506 corpus weight
- touring
touring
91,505 corpus weight
- traces
traces
91,504 corpus weight
- trademark
trademark
91,503 corpus weight
What this shows “touring” 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 | touring |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈtʊəɹɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “touring”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around touring (IPA /ˈtʊəɹɪŋ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,496 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for touring, with forms such as "oturing", "toruing", and "touirng". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Turin", "tuning", "tubing", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is touring, spelled T-O-U-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Working for a short time in different places.
- 2Intended for a journey through a country or a region, related to tourism.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how touring appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a touring company
If you are not using a touring-specific bike and you have large feet, you could have problems with your heels striking your rear panniers. This is one of the very reasons why a touring bike has long chainstays (435mm minimum).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oturing
- toruing
- touirng
- tourign
- touringg
- tourinng
- tournig
- tourring
- ttouring
- tuoring
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of touring - 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 "touring", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (10 here; floor ≥5).