# cooling

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈkuːlɪŋ/ · frequency rank #6,453

## Definitions
1. That cools.
2. Of food or medicine, according to traditional Chinese medicine: serving to cool or calm the body.

## Etymology
By surface analysis, cool + -ing.

## Easily confused with
- **coping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooling-vs-coping)
- **cycling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooling-vs-cycling)
- **copying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooling-vs-copying)
- **curling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooling-vs-curling)
- **culling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooling-vs-culling)
- **coupling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooling-vs-coupling)
- **Colin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/colin-vs-cooling)
- **cling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cling-vs-cooling)
- **coming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coming-vs-cooling)
- **coding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coding-vs-cooling)
- **Collin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/collin-vs-cooling)
- **coking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coking-vs-cooling)
- **calling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/calling-vs-cooling)
- **closing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/closing-vs-cooling)
- **cooking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooking-vs-cooling)
- **ceiling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ceiling-vs-cooling)
- **Collins** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/collins-vs-cooling)
- **coating** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coating-vs-cooling)
- **choking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/choking-vs-cooling)
- **cloning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cloning-vs-cooling)

## Common misspellings (10)
`ccooling`, `coling`, `coloing`, `cooilng`, `coolign`, `coolingg`, `coolinng`, `coolling`, `coolnig`, `ocoling`

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