whoring
"whoring" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“whoring” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #48,016. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,016
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of prostitution, having sex for money; (figurative) disgracing oneself for money; having promiscuous sex.
Corpus desk
Index EN-whoring · whoring · English
whoring · rank #48,016 · 11 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,016
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Whittington
Nearest frequency peer: Whittington (-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 “whoring”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- watchmaker
watchmaker
51,990 corpus weight
- whitefish
whitefish
51,987 corpus weight
- Whittington
Whittington
51,986 corpus weight
- whoring
whoring
51,985 corpus weight
- Wiccan
Wiccan
51,984 corpus weight
- workbench
workbench
51,981 corpus weight
What this shows “whoring” 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 | whoring |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,016 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “whoring”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around whoring, anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,016 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Synonym of prostitution, having sex for money; (figurative) disgracing oneself for money; having promiscuous sex.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for whoring, with forms such as "hworing", "whhoring", and "whoirng". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "wring", "wiring", "wooing", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is whoring, spelled W-H-O-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Synonym of prostitution, having sex for money; (figurative) disgracing oneself for money; having promiscuous sex.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how whoring appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Scott... had told me at the Closerie des Lilas how he wrote what he thought were good stories, and which really were good stories for the Post, and then changed them for submission, knowing exactly how he must make the twists that made them into salable magazine stories. I had been shocked at this and I said I thought it was whoring. He said it was whorin…
Yet she increased her whorings, remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt and lusted after her paramours
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hworing
- whhoring
- whoirng
- whorign
- whoringg
- whorinng
- whornig
- whorring
- whroing
- wohring
- wwhoring
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of whoring - 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
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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 (11 here; floor ≥5).