Which to use
“excluding” is a preposition and “excusing” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #8,034
- “excluding” frequency rank
- #44,192
- “excusing” frequency rank
- 52226
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excluding | excusing |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | to the exclusion of; not including | The act of making an excuse. |
Letter map: excluding vs excusing
Shared letters muted; letters that set excluding and excusing apart highlighted. Shared run: 7.
Part-of-speech tell for excluding / excusing
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: excluding is apreposition and excusinganoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52226, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
excluding is recorded at frequency rank #8,034, classified as aprep. excusing is at rank #44,192, tagged as anoun.
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 52226, this pair ranks #158,833 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of excluding vs excusing
Shared letters: ceginux. Private to "excluding": dl. Private to "excusing": s.
"excluding" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVCC · "excusing" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "excluding" and "excusing" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary English text, does "excluding" or "excusing" show up more?
What to do next
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- Full dictionary entry for "excluding" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "excusing" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #158,833 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excluding" and "excusing" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excusing vs exposing". 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 #158,833 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.