walling
"walling" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“walling” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #47,416. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,416
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A group of walls.
Corpus desk
Index EN-walling · walling · English
walling · rank #47,416 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,416
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH walkable
Nearest frequency peer: walkable (-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 “walling”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- waa
waa
52,588 corpus weight
- wali
wali
52,587 corpus weight
- walkable
walkable
52,586 corpus weight
- walling
walling
52,585 corpus weight
- Westbury
Westbury
52,583 corpus weight
- whimsy
whimsy
52,582 corpus weight
What this shows “walling” 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 | walling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “walling”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around walling, anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,416 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for walling, with forms such as "awlling", "walilng", and "waling". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "waving", "Wallis", "waning", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is walling, spelled W-A-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A group of walls.
- 2Material used for walls.
- 3A method of torture in which a person's neck is encircled by a collar, which is then used to slam the person against a wall.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how walling appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nor was this all; seeing something projecting through the soil at the bottom of the bared patch of walling, I removed the loose earth with my hands, and revealed a huge stone ring, a foot or more in diameter, and about three inches thick.
“All three,” says Dr. Schliemann, “were unusually large, and appeared to have been forced into the small space of only 5 feet 6 inches, left for them between the inner wallings […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awlling
- walilng
- waling
- wallign
- wallingg
- wallinng
- wallnig
- wlaling
- wwalling
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of walling - 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 "walling", 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).