winking
"winking" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“winking” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #36,397. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,397
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 17
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of someone who winks.
Corpus desk
Index EN-winking · winking · English
winking · rank #36,397 · 11 variants · 17 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,397
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH withering
Nearest frequency peer: withering (+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 “winking”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Whiteside
Whiteside
63,607 corpus weight
- Whitmore
Whitmore
63,606 corpus weight
- winking
winking
63,604 corpus weight
- withering
withering
63,603 corpus weight
- woodpecker
woodpecker
63,602 corpus weight
- WTC
WTC
63,599 corpus weight
What this shows “winking” 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 | winking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “winking”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around winking, anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,397 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of someone who winks.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for winking, with forms such as "iwnking", "wikning", and "winikng". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "wiring", "wiping", "Woking", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is winking, spelled W-I-N-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of someone who winks.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how winking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I have known some happy spirits, who could sit for hours, when no other amusement presented, and talk of the winkings and squintings, they had lately been so eagle-eyed, as to detect between some innocent couple […]
[…] Billy didn’t get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city is capable of doing when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one. ¶ There was a broad river to reflect those lights, which would have made their nighttime winkings very pretty indeed.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iwnking
- wikning
- winikng
- winkign
- winkingg
- winkinng
- winkking
- winknig
- winnking
- wniking
- wwinking
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of winking - 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 "winking", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).