welcoming
"welcoming" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“welcoming” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #10,153. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,153
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hospitable, accessible and cordial.
Corpus desk
Index EN-welcoming · welcoming · English
welcoming · rank #10,153 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,153
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Webb
Nearest frequency peer: Webb (-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 “welcoming”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- viewer
viewer
89,850 corpus weight
- Webb
Webb
89,849 corpus weight
- welcoming
welcoming
89,848 corpus weight
- whales
whales
89,847 corpus weight
- wheeler
wheeler
89,846 corpus weight
- worm
worm
89,845 corpus weight
What this shows “welcoming” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | welcoming |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “welcoming”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around welcoming, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,153 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "hospitable, accessible and cordial.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for welcoming, with forms such as "ewlcoming", "wecloming", and "welccoming". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From welcome + -ing. The correct English form is welcoming, spelled W-E-L-C-O-M-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1hospitable, accessible and cordial.
Etymology
From welcome + -ing.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ewlcoming
- wecloming
- welccoming
- welcmoing
- welcoimng
- welcomign
- welcomingg
- welcominng
- welcomming
- welcomnig
- wellcoming
- welocming
- wlecoming
- wwelcoming
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of welcoming - 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 "welcoming", 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).