# booting

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #33,543

## Definitions
1. A kicking, as with a booted foot.
2. The act by which a computer is booted.
3. Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.
4. Homicide by gunfire.

## Easily confused with
- **boring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booting-vs-boring)
- **boxing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booting-vs-boxing)
- **bowing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booting-vs-bowing)
- **bowling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booting-vs-bowling)
- **busting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booting-vs-busting)
- **bootleg** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booting-vs-bootleg)
- **bunting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booting-vs-bunting)
- **butting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booting-vs-butting)
- **bottling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booting-vs-bottling)
- **brooding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booting-vs-brooding)
- **boing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boing-vs-booting)
- **Boeing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boeing-vs-booting)
- **biting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/biting-vs-booting)
- **booing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booing-vs-booting)
- **beating** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beating-vs-booting)
- **blowing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/blowing-vs-booting)
- **bombing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bombing-vs-booting)
- **betting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/betting-vs-booting)
- **booking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/booking-vs-booting)
- **batting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/batting-vs-booting)

## Common misspellings (10)
`bbooting`, `booitng`, `bootign`, `bootingg`, `bootinng`, `bootnig`, `bootting`, `boting`, `botoing`, `oboting`

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