# curling

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkəɹlɪŋ/ · frequency rank #14,731

## Definitions
1. The action or motion of something that curls or is curled.
2. A winter sport where players aim and slide stones down a sheet of ice and attempt to get their color stones closest to the house (a circular target marked on the ice).

## Easily confused with
- **Curtin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/curling-vs-curtin)
- **cutting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/curling-vs-cutting)
- **cycling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/curling-vs-cycling)
- **cursing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/curling-vs-cursing)
- **curving** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/curling-vs-curving)
- **cussing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/curling-vs-cussing)
- **cling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cling-vs-curling)
- **crying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/crying-vs-curling)
- **caring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/caring-vs-curling)
- **curing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/curing-vs-curling)
- **carlin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/carlin-vs-curling)
- **calling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/calling-vs-curling)
- **ceiling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ceiling-vs-curling)
- **cooling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooling-vs-curling)
- **carving** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/carving-vs-curling)
- **cunning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cunning-vs-curling)
- **cumming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cumming-vs-curling)
- **culling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/culling-vs-curling)
- **cabling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cabling-vs-curling)
- **cupping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cupping-vs-curling)

## Common misspellings (11)
`ccurling`, `cruling`, `culring`, `curilng`, `curlign`, `curlingg`, `curlinng`, `curlling`, `curlnig`, `currling`, `ucrling`

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