going

noun

The verdict

“going” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #16,075. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,075
frequency rank, Portuguese
521
“G” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - progresso; seguimento; continuidade

Corpus desk

Index PT-going · going · Portuguese

going · rank #16,075 · 7 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,075
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 521
  • PHOTO-FINISH genuíno

Nearest frequency peer: genuíno (-4 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.

Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “going”

Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho

corpus weight

What this shows “going” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

going vs Guiné
40% similar
going vs gonna
60% similar
going vs gringo
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for going
PropertyValue
Headwordgoing
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#16,075
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequência do íman ortográfico “going”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).goingcai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “genuíno” (#16,071), “guarnição” (#16,080), “fun” (#16,068). Entre 521 lemas com “G”, “going” fica em #16,075. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around going, anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,075 among 521 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "progresso; seguimento; continuidade".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for going, with forms such as "ggoing", "giong", and "goign". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Guiné", "gonna", "gringo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is going, spelled G-O-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    progresso; seguimento; continuidade

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how going appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The going was very difficult over the ice.

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 - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

ggoing1giong2goign2goingg1goinng1gonig2oging2
Edit distance from "going"

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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "going"?
"going" is spelled G-O-I-N-G.
What does "going" mean?
As a noun, "going" means: progresso; seguimento; continuidade
What words are commonly confused with "going"?
"going" is commonly confused with "Guiné", "gonna", "gringo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "going" come from?
"going" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "going", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list