Queueing or queuing?
Both are forms of queue: queueing is the present participle and gerund of queue, and queuing the present participle and gerund of queue. On its own, queueing is a noun meaning “Alternative form of queuing”, and queuing a noun meaning “The act of queuing up (lining up) or waiting in line/on line”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) queuing is about 2.6 times as common as queueing.
What is the difference between queueing and queuing?
| queueing | queuing | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun, verb | noun, verb |
| Meaning | Alternative form of queuing | The act of queuing up (lining up) or waiting in line/on line The act of placing something in a queue |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | queueings | queuings |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | /ˈkjuːɪŋ/ |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words | 1.1 times per million words |
Sources: queueing and queuing in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of queueing and queuing
queueing
- 1
Alternative form of queuing
queuing
- 1
The act of queuing up (lining up) or waiting in line/on line
- 2
The act of placing something in a queue
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, queueing or queuing?
queueing appears about once in every 2 million words; queuing 1.1 times per million words.
queueing about once in every 2 million wordsqueuing 1.1 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search queueing vs queuing?
“queueing vs queuing” is searched about 50 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“queuing vs queueing”, “queueing or queuing”).
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.