# looping

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #28,614

## Definitions
1. The running together of ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.

## Etymology
Compare Dutch loopen (“to run”).

## Easily confused with
- **losing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/looping-vs-losing)
- **loving** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/looping-vs-loving)
- **loring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/looping-vs-loring)
- **looting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/looping-vs-looting)
- **looking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/looking-vs-looping)
- **loading** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loading-vs-looping)
- **locking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/locking-vs-looping)
- **logging** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/logging-vs-looping)
- **longing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/longing-vs-looping)
- **lodging** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lodging-vs-looping)
- **looming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/looming-vs-looping)
- **leaping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/leaping-vs-looping)
- **limping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/limping-vs-looping)
- **lapping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lapping-vs-looping)
- **loaning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loaning-vs-looping)

## Common misspellings (10)
`llooping`, `looipng`, `loopign`, `loopingg`, `loopinng`, `loopnig`, `loopping`, `loping`, `lopoing`, `oloping`

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