tumbling
"tumbling" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tumbling” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #21,394. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,394
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of something that tumbles.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tumbling · tumbling · English
tumbling · rank #21,394 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,394
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tue
Nearest frequency peer: Tue (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “tumbling”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- toro
toro
78,612 corpus weight
- tubular
tubular
78,609 corpus weight
- Tue
Tue
78,608 corpus weight
- tumbling
tumbling
78,607 corpus weight
- underside
underside
78,605 corpus weight
- uneducated
uneducated
78,604 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tumbling” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | tumbling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tumbling” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around tumbling, anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,394 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of something that tumbles.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for tumbling, with forms such as "tmubling", "ttumbling", and "tubmling". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "tubing", "trembling", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is tumbling, spelled T-U-M-B-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of something that tumbles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tumbling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
These so many conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and tossings, many disturbances and changes in government[…]
Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- tmubling
- ttumbling
- tubmling
- tumbbling
- tumbilng
- tumblign
- tumblingg
- tumblinng
- tumblling
- tumblnig
- tumlbing
- tummbling
- utmbling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tumbling - 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 "tumbling", 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 (13 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "tumbling" maps to 2 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "tubing". View pair
- 13 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #21,394 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "T" letter cohort. T–Z browse
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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.