# hemming

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #48,277

## Definitions
1. The act of saying "hem", in intermission or hesitation of speech.

## Easily confused with
- **homing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hemming-vs-homing)
- **herring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hemming-vs-herring)
- **humming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hemming-vs-humming)
- **herding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hemming-vs-herding)
- **humping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hemming-vs-humping)
- **hearing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hearing-vs-hemming)
- **helping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/helping-vs-hemming)
- **heading** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heading-vs-hemming)
- **healing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/healing-vs-hemming)
- **heating** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heating-vs-hemming)
- **hedging** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hedging-vs-hemming)
- **heaving** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heaving-vs-hemming)
- **heaping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/heaping-vs-hemming)

## Common misspellings (9)
`ehmming`, `hemimng`, `heming`, `hemmign`, `hemmingg`, `hemminng`, `hemmnig`, `hhemming`, `hmeming`

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