vomiting
"vomiting" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vomiting” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,527. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,527
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of one who vomits, or the matter that is vomited.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vomiting · vomiting · English
vomiting · rank #12,527 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,527
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH warden
Nearest frequency peer: warden (+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 “vomiting”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- unlucky
unlucky
87,478 corpus weight
- UV
UV
87,476 corpus weight
- vomiting
vomiting
87,474 corpus weight
- warden
warden
87,473 corpus weight
- warp
warp
87,472 corpus weight
- whisky
whisky
87,471 corpus weight
What this shows “vomiting” 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 | vomiting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “vomiting”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around vomiting, anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,527 among 969 “V” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of one who vomits, or the matter that is vomited.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for vomiting, with forms such as "ovmiting", "vmoiting", and "voimting". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "voting", "voicing", "visiting", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is vomiting, spelled V-O-M-I-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of one who vomits, or the matter that is vomited.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vomiting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.
It is certainly probable that these black vomitings and stools may be absent, and in that case it would be extremely difficult to diagnose between simple ulcer of the stomach and non-ulcerative gastritis.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ovmiting
- vmoiting
- voimting
- vomiitng
- vomitign
- vomitingg
- vomitinng
- vomitnig
- vomitting
- vommiting
- vomtiing
- vvomiting
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of vomiting - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "vomiting", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).