comming vs cooking, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“comming” is a verb and “cooking” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#48,149
“comming” frequency rank: #3,287
“cooking” frequency rank: 51436
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	comming	cooking
Definition	Obsolete spelling of coming, now an occasional misspelling.	The process of preparing food by using heat.

Letter map: comming vs cooking

Shared letters muted; letters that set comming and cooking apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

7 ch

comming

7 ch

cooking

Grammar separator: comming vs cooking

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: comming is averb and cookinganoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51436, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

comming is recorded at frequency rank #48,149, classified as averb. cooking is at rank #3,287, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈkʊk.ɪŋ/.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 51436, this pair ranks #165,520 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of comming vs cooking

Shared letters: cgino. Private to "comming": m. Private to "cooking": k.

"comming" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC · "cooking" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

comming ← ccomming · cmoming · comimng · commign · commingg · comminng · commnig · ocmming
cooking ← ccooking · cokoing · cooikng · cookign · cookingg · cookinng · cookking · cooknig

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "comming" for "cooking" ever safe?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "comming" is a verb and "cooking" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "comming" vs "cooking" - which ranks higher?

"cooking" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,287 in our English list, against #48,149 for "comming". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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Full dictionary entry for "comming" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "cooking" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #165,520 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"comming" and "cooking" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "coining vs comming". Nearby pair
Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #165,520 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.