coming
/ˈkʌmɪŋ/
"coming" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coming” is in the everyday core of English, ranked #383 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #383
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - present participle and gerund of come
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coming |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈkʌmɪŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coming” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for coming is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkʌmɪŋ/. Corpus data places it at rank #383 in overall English word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "present participle and gerund of come".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for coming, with forms such as "ccoming", "cmoing", and "coimng". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cong", "cumin", "crying", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English cominge, comynge, comande, from Old English cumende, from Proto-Germanic *kwemandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), equivalent to come + -ing (present participle ending). Cognate with Dutch komend (“coming”), G… The correct English form is coming, spelled C-O-M-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of come
Etymology
From Middle English cominge, comynge, comande, from Old English cumende, from Proto-Germanic *kwemandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), equivalent to come + -ing (present participle ending). Cognate with Dutch komend (“coming”), German kommend (“coming”), Swedish kommande (“coming”), Icelandic komandi (“coming”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoming,cmoing,coimng,comign,comingg,cominng,comnig,ocming
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coming - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “coming”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-M-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkʌmɪŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Cong” - see the side-by-side comparison. coming vs Cong
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.