# combing

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #28,873

## Definitions
1. The act by which something is combed.
2. Individual hairs that drop out when the hair is combed.

## Easily confused with
- **coming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/combing-vs-coming)
- **coping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/combing-vs-coping)
- **Corbin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/combing-vs-corbin)
- **cooking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/combing-vs-cooking)
- **cooling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/combing-vs-cooling)
- **copying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/combing-vs-copying)
- **cumming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/combing-vs-cumming)
- **comming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/combing-vs-comming)
- **combining** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/combing-vs-combining)
- **coding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coding-vs-combing)
- **coking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coking-vs-combing)
- **combine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/combine-vs-combing)
- **camping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/camping-vs-combing)
- **coating** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coating-vs-combing)
- **coining** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coining-vs-combing)
- **combined** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/combined-vs-combing)
- **climbing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/climbing-vs-combing)
- **combines** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/combines-vs-combing)
- **chomping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chomping-vs-combing)

## Common misspellings (11)
`ccombing`, `cmobing`, `cobming`, `combbing`, `combign`, `combingg`, `combinng`, `combnig`, `comibng`, `commbing`, `ocmbing`

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