wandering
/ˈwɑndəɹɪŋ/
"wandering" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wandering” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,691. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,691
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Which wanders; travelling from place to place.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wandering · wandering · English
wandering · rank #9,691 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,691
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wan
Nearest frequency peer: wan (-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 “wandering”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- vent
vent
90,313 corpus weight
- vicinity
vicinity
90,312 corpus weight
- wan
wan
90,311 corpus weight
- wandering
wandering
90,310 corpus weight
- wardrobe
wardrobe
90,309 corpus weight
- warmth
warmth
90,308 corpus weight
What this shows “wandering” 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 | wandering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈwɑndəɹɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “wandering”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around wandering (IPA /ˈwɑndəɹɪŋ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,691 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for wandering, with forms such as "awndering", "wadnering", and "wanddering". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "watering", "wavering", "wondering", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From wander + -ing. The correct English form is wandering, spelled W-A-N-D-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Which wanders; travelling from place to place.
- 2Abnormally capable of moving in certain directions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wandering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This was the time when Venerable Master Hsing Yun first arrived in Taiwan as a wandering monk and was refused lodgings. He was nearly reduced to begging on the street. Fortunately, the old Venerable Miaoguo of Yuanguang Temple in Chungli took him in.
a wandering kidney; a wandering liver
Etymology
From wander + -ing.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- awndering
- wadnering
- wanddering
- wandeirng
- wanderign
- wanderingg
- wanderinng
- wandernig
- wanderring
- wandreing
- wanedring
- wanndering
- wnadering
- wwandering
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wandering - 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 "wandering", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).