going
\ˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ\
The verdict
“going” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,878. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,878
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de go.
Corpus desk
Index FR-going · going · French
going · rank #22,878 · 7 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,878
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH germes
Nearest frequency peer: germes (-2 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « going »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gelées
gelées
77,126 corpus weight
- germes
germes
77,125 corpus weight
- going
going
77,123 corpus weight
- gourmands
gourmands
77,121 corpus weight
- grandeurs
grandeurs
77,120 corpus weight
- graphe
graphe
77,119 corpus weight
What this shows « going » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | going |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,878 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « going »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around going (IPA \ˈɡoʊ.ɪŋ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,878 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de go.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for going, with forms such as "ggoing", "giong", and "goign". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "gon", "gong", "gone", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is going, spelled G-O-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de go.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggoing
- giong
- goign
- goingg
- goinng
- gonig
- oging
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of going - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).