# coloring

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #13,118

## Definitions
1. An act or process which applies color.
2. Any substance used to give color.
3. The appearance as to color.
4. A disguise or discoloration.
5. An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph, usually such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color.

## Easily confused with
- **cooking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coloring-vs-cooking)
- **cooling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coloring-vs-cooling)
- **covering** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coloring-vs-covering)
- **colouring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coloring-vs-colouring)
- **closing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closing-vs-coloring)
- **cloning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cloning-vs-coloring)
- **chlorine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chlorine-vs-coloring)

## Common misspellings (12)
`ccoloring`, `clooring`, `colloring`, `coloirng`, `colorign`, `coloringg`, `colorinng`, `colornig`, `colorring`, `colroing`, `coolring`, `ocloring`

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