worshipping
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "worshipping", 11-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "worshipping" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "worshipping" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
The verdict
“worshipping” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #26,662 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #26,662
- frequency rank, English
- 11
- letters
- 16
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: An act of worship.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | worshipping |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #26,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “worshipping” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for worshipping is 11 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #26,662 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An act of worship.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for worshipping, with forms such as "owrshipping", "worhsipping", and "worrshipping". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is worshipping, spelled W-O-R-S-H-I-P-P-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1An act of worship.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: owrshipping,worhsipping,worrshipping,worshhipping,worshiping,worshipipng,worshippign,worshippingg,worshippinng,worshippnig,worshpiping,worsihpping,worsshipping,wosrhipping,wroshipping,wworshipping
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of worshipping - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "worshipping"
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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Using “worshipping”
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- The one correct English spelling is W-O-R-S-H-I-P-P-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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