coming and going
"coming-and-going" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coming and going” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A general bustle of activity.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coming and going |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coming and going” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
coming and going is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
coming and going doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is coming and going, spelled C-O-M-I-N-G- -A-N-D- -G-O-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A general bustle of activity.
- 2The activities of a specified person or group.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “coming and going”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-M-I-N-G- -A-N-D- -G-O-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.