# dialing

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #26,754

## Definitions
1. The act by which a number is dialed.
2. The art of constructing dials.
3. The science of measuring time by use of a dial.
4. A method of surveying, especially in mines, in which the bearings of the courses, or the angles which they make with each other, are determined by means of the circumferentor; the use of a miner's dial.

## Easily confused with
- **dining** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dialing-vs-dining)
- **diving** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dialing-vs-diving)
- **dialog** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dialing-vs-dialog)
- **drawing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dialing-vs-drawing)
- **digging** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dialing-vs-digging)
- **dipping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dialing-vs-dipping)
- **dieting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dialing-vs-dieting)
- **dishing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dialing-vs-dishing)
- **dimming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dialing-vs-dimming)
- **dissing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dialing-vs-dissing)
- **drilling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dialing-vs-drilling)
- **disabling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dialing-vs-disabling)
- **dating** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dating-vs-dialing)
- **daring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/daring-vs-dialing)
- **dealing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dealing-vs-dialing)
- **darling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/darling-vs-dialing)
- **dealings** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/dealings-vs-dialing)

## Common misspellings (10)
`dailing`, `ddialing`, `diailng`, `dialign`, `dialingg`, `dialinng`, `dialling`, `dialnig`, `dilaing`, `idaling`

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