tucking
"tucking" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tucking” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,890. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,890
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A tuck.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tucking · tucking · English
tucking · rank #33,890 · 11 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,890
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH TTC
Nearest frequency peer: TTC (-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 “tucking”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Tripp
Tripp
66,114 corpus weight
- TTC
TTC
66,112 corpus weight
- tucking
tucking
66,111 corpus weight
- tugging
tugging
66,110 corpus weight
- Twickenham
Twickenham
66,109 corpus weight
- UBS
UBS
66,108 corpus weight
What this shows “tucking” 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 | tucking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “tucking”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around tucking, anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,890 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A tuck.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tucking, with forms such as "tcuking", "ttucking", and "tuccking". 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 16 confusable-pair relationships, "tuning", "Turing", "turning", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is tucking, spelled T-U-C-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A tuck.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tucking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
White embroidery, lace, delicate tuckings, and elaborate ribbings rioted across the white of his short doubtlet, breech, and tight stockings.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tcuking
- ttucking
- tuccking
- tucikng
- tuckign
- tuckingg
- tuckinng
- tuckking
- tucknig
- tukcing
- utcking
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tucking - 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 "tucking", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).