touting

noun

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"touting" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“touting” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #36,793. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,793
frequency rank, English
3,151
“T” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of one who touts.

Corpus desk

Index EN-touting · touting · English

touting · rank #36,793 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #36,793
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,151
  • PHOTO-FINISH topshop

Nearest frequency peer: topshop (-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 “touting”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “touting” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

touting vs tuning
71% similar
touting vs tubing
71% similar
touting vs Turing
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for touting
PropertyValue
Headwordtouting
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#36,793
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “touting”

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).toutinglands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Ticks step logarithmically, so each one marks a roughly tenfold drop in how often the word turns up. Same rarity band neighbours include “topshop” (#36,792), “toothpick” (#36,791), “Tonya” (#36,790). Among 3,151 “T” headwords, “touting” is #36,793. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around touting, anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,793 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of one who touts.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for touting, with forms such as "otuting", "totuing", and "touitng". 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, "tuning", "tubing", "Turing", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is touting, spelled T-O-U-T-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    The act of one who touts.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how touting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Abortive therefore, in a great measure, are the daily toutings of the emigration speculators, and their active crimps, with all their plausible assurances of speedy independence to be gained by adventurers of the pauper class […]

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • otuting
  • totuing
  • touitng
  • toutign
  • toutingg
  • toutinng
  • toutnig
  • toutting
  • ttouting
  • tuoting

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of touting - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

otuting2totuing2touitng2toutign2toutingg1toutinng1toutnig2toutting1
Edit distance from "touting"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "touting"?
"touting" is spelled T-O-U-T-I-N-G.
What does "touting" mean?
As a noun, "touting" means: The act of one who touts.
What words are commonly confused with "touting"?
"touting" is commonly confused with "tuning", "tubing", "Turing". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "touting" come from?
"touting" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "touting", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

topshop#36,792Tierney#36,787urinate#36,806urology#36,807

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Tbilisi10 variantsswatch10 variantsStallone10 variantsShaolin10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list