# hooking vs hopping

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### hooking
*verb · IPA /ˈhʊkɪŋ/ · frequency rank #19,360*
present participle and gerund of hook

### hopping
*noun · frequency rank #16,490*
hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hooking-vs-hopping