# booking

> English word · Verb · IPA /ˈbʊkɪŋ/ · frequency rank #8,760

## Definitions
1. present participle and gerund of book

## Easily confused with
- **boring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booking-vs-boring)
- **boxing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booking-vs-boxing)
- **bowing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booking-vs-bowing)
- **bowling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booking-vs-bowling)
- **booming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booking-vs-booming)
- **braking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booking-vs-braking)
- **booting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booking-vs-booting)
- **bucking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booking-vs-bucking)
- **bookish** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booking-vs-bookish)
- **bookings** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booking-vs-bookings)
- **brooding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booking-vs-brooding)
- **boing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boing-vs-booking)
- **baking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/baking-vs-booking)
- **Boeing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boeing-vs-booking)
- **biking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/biking-vs-booking)
- **booing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booing-vs-booking)
- **bookie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bookie-vs-booking)
- **banking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/banking-vs-booking)
- **backing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/backing-vs-booking)
- **blowing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/blowing-vs-booking)

## Common misspellings (10)
`bbooking`, `boking`, `bokoing`, `booikng`, `bookign`, `bookingg`, `bookinng`, `bookking`, `booknig`, `oboking`

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