undermining
"undermining" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“undermining” has 17 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,238. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,238
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act or process by which something is undermined.
Corpus desk
Index EN-undermining · undermining · English
undermining · rank #19,238 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,238
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH untold
Nearest frequency peer: untold (+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 “undermining”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- treacherous
treacherous
80,766 corpus weight
- Turnbull
Turnbull
80,765 corpus weight
- undermining
undermining
80,763 corpus weight
- untold
untold
80,762 corpus weight
- uplifting
uplifting
80,761 corpus weight
- vaccinated
vaccinated
80,759 corpus weight
What this shows “undermining” 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 | undermining |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #19,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “undermining”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around undermining, anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,238 among 1,433 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act or process by which something is undermined.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for undermining, with forms such as "nudermining", "udnermining", and "unddermining". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "underpinning", "underlining", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is undermining, spelled U-N-D-E-R-M-I-N-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act or process by which something is undermined.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how undermining appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The piece, titled You, calls up many references from the past and the present: from Michael Heizer's earthworks to Chris Burden's institutional underminings to Monica Bonvicini's simulations of the same.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- nudermining
- udnermining
- unddermining
- undemrining
- underimning
- undermiinng
- underminign
- underminingg
- undermininng
- underminnig
- underminning
- undermmining
- undermniing
- underrmining
- undremining
- unedrmining
- unndermining
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of undermining - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "undermining", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).