# looting

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #15,856

## Definitions
1. The act of stealing during a crisis such as a war, riot or natural disaster, when law enforcement is ineffective or absent.

## Easily confused with
- **losing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/looting-vs-losing)
- **loving** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/looting-vs-loving)
- **loring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/looting-vs-loring)
- **looking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/looking-vs-looting)
- **letting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/letting-vs-looting)
- **listing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/listing-vs-looting)
- **lasting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lasting-vs-looting)
- **loading** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loading-vs-looting)
- **lifting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lifting-vs-looting)
- **locking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/locking-vs-looting)
- **logging** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/logging-vs-looting)
- **longing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/longing-vs-looting)
- **lodging** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lodging-vs-looting)
- **looming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/looming-vs-looting)
- **looping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/looping-vs-looting)
- **loaning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loaning-vs-looting)
- **loathing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/loathing-vs-looting)

## Common misspellings (10)
`llooting`, `looitng`, `lootign`, `lootingg`, `lootinng`, `lootnig`, `lootting`, `loting`, `lotoing`, `oloting`

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