willing

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The English entry for willing is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈwɪlɪŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,976 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ready to do something, particularly something that requires change or effort; not objecting.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for willing, with forms such as "iwlling", "wililng", and "wiling". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Willis", "wiring", "wiping", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: * (adjective): Old English willende, present participle of willan * (noun): Old English willung, from willian By surface analysis, will + -ing. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is willing, spelled W-I-L-L-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.