Which to use
“sailing” is a verb and “suiting” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #7,283
- “sailing” frequency rank
- #46,800
- “suiting” frequency rank
- 54083
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | sailing | suiting |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | present participle and gerund of sail | fabric for making suits |
Letter map: sailing vs suiting
Shared letters muted; letters that set sailing and suiting apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.
Part-of-speech tell for sailing / suiting
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: sailing is averb and suitinganoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54083, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
sailing is recorded at frequency rank #7,283, classified as averb, pronounced /ˈseɪ.lɪŋ/. suiting is at rank #46,800, 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 54083, this pair ranks #143,850 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of sailing vs suiting
Shared letters: gins. Private to "sailing": al. Private to "suiting": tu.
"sailing" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCC · "suiting" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
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- Full dictionary entry for "sailing" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "suiting" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #143,850 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "sailing" and "suiting" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "suiting vs sulking". 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 #143,850 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.