# inning

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɪnɪŋ/ · frequency rank #9,195

## Definitions
1. A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the visiting team's pitching. There are nine or more innings in a regulation baseball game.
2. A similar period of play.
3. A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.
4. A chance or opportunity to perform some deed or act.
5. The gathering of a crop; harvesting.
6. Lands recovered from the sea.

## Etymology
Back-formation from innings, mistaken to be plural of the time period, not the entries of the batters/batsmen.

## Easily confused with
- **innit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/inning-vs-innit)
- **Irving** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/inning-vs-irving)
- **innings** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/inning-vs-innings)
- **ironing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/inning-vs-ironing)
- **icing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/icing-vs-inning)
- **inline** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/inline-vs-inning)
- **idling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/idling-vs-inning)
- **inking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/inking-vs-inning)
- **inkling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/inkling-vs-inning)
- **inching** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/inching-vs-inning)

## Common misspellings (7)
`ining`, `ininng`, `innign`, `inningg`, `inninng`, `innnig`, `nining`

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