# clothing

> English word · Verb · IPA /ˈkləʊðɪŋ/ · frequency rank #3,155

## Definitions
1. present participle and gerund of clothe

## Etymology
From Middle English clothing, clathing; equivalent to clothe + -ing. Cognate with Scots cleeding, cleiding, cleading (“clothing”), Dutch kleding (“clothing”), German Kleidung (“clothing”), Danish klædning (“clothing, dress, attire”), Swedish klädning (“dress”). Doublet of the dialectal English term cleading, from Middle English clething; compare also cladding.

## Easily confused with
- **clotting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clothing-vs-clotting)
- **clowning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clothing-vs-clowning)
- **clouding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clothing-vs-clouding)
- **clutching** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clothing-vs-clutching)
- **closing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closing-vs-clothing)
- **cloning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cloning-vs-clothing)
- **clashing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clashing-vs-clothing)
- **clogging** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clogging-vs-clothing)
- **clocking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clocking-vs-clothing)
- **cloaking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cloaking-vs-clothing)

## Common misspellings (13)
`cclothing`, `cllothing`, `clohting`, `clothhing`, `clothign`, `clothingg`, `clothinng`, `clothnig`, `clotihng`, `clotthing`, `cltohing`, `colthing`, `lcothing`

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