workings
"workings" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“workings” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,747. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,747
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The internal mechanism of some device or system.
Corpus desk
Index EN-workings · workings · English
workings · rank #17,747 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,747
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH wooded
Nearest frequency peer: wooded (-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 “workings”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- variability
variability
82,257 corpus weight
- waltz
waltz
82,256 corpus weight
- wooded
wooded
82,255 corpus weight
- workings
workings
82,254 corpus weight
- zac
zac
82,253 corpus weight
- zhou
zhou
82,252 corpus weight
What this shows “workings” 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 | workings |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “workings”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around workings, anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,747 among 1,759 “W” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for workings, with forms such as "owrkings", "wokrings", and "worikngs". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Woking", "working", "wording", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is workings, spelled W-O-R-K-I-N-G-S.
Definition
- 1The internal mechanism of some device or system.
- 2The parts of a quarry or mine that are being (or has been) worked.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how workings appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
The main platforms are unusually far apart, because the two centre tracks were lifted after the East Coast Main Line was diverted in 1983 to avoid now defunct new coal workings.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- owrkings
- wokrings
- worikngs
- workigns
- workinggs
- workingss
- workinngs
- workinsg
- workkings
- worknigs
- worrkings
- wrokings
- wworkings
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of workings - 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 "workings", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).