wearing
/ˈwɛɹɪŋ/
"wearing" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wearing” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,511. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,511
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intended to be worn.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wearing · wearing · English
wearing · rank #1,511 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,511
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH who's
Nearest frequency peer: who's (+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 “wearing”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- tree
tree
98,493 corpus weight
- types
types
98,492 corpus weight
- wearing
wearing
98,490 corpus weight
- who's
who's
98,489 corpus weight
- whom
whom
98,488 corpus weight
- wonderful
wonderful
98,487 corpus weight
What this shows “wearing” 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 | wearing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈwɛɹɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “wearing”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around wearing (IPA /ˈwɛɹɪŋ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,511 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for wearing, with forms such as "ewaring", "waering", and "weairng". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wring", "wiring", "wedding", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is wearing, spelled W-E-A-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Intended to be worn.
- 2Causing tiredness; trying to a person's patience.
- 3Causing erosion.
- 4That wears (deteriorate through use), and may eventually wear out.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how wearing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Clothes used to be called wearing apparel.
[The biography] also displays a rather wearing fidelity to chronology that gives rise to too many summer holidays at the beginning of the book and too many royalty statements towards the end.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ewaring
- waering
- weairng
- wearign
- wearingg
- wearinng
- wearnig
- wearring
- weraing
- wwearing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of wearing - 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 "wearing", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).