trawling
"trawling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“trawling” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #45,132 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #45,132
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A commercial fishing technique in which a net is dragged by a moving boat. Not to be confused with trolling, which drags (one or more) lines.
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 | trawling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #45,132 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “trawling” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for trawling is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #45,132 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for trawling, with forms such as "rtawling", "tarwling", and "tralwing". 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, "trolling", "trifling", "trading", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is trawling, spelled T-R-A-W-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A commercial fishing technique in which a net is dragged by a moving boat. Not to be confused with trolling, which drags (one or more) lines.
- 2A laborious search.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: rtawling,tarwling,tralwing,trawilng,trawlign,trawlingg,trawlinng,trawlling,trawlnig,trawwling,trrawling,trwaling,ttrawling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of trawling - 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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Using “trawling”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-R-A-W-L-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “trolling” - see the side-by-side comparison. trawling vs trolling
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.