# pausing

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #27,593

## Definitions
1. A pause.

## Easily confused with
- **paying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pausing-vs-paying)
- **posing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pausing-vs-posing)
- **paving** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pausing-vs-paving)
- **puking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pausing-vs-puking)
- **pushing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pausing-vs-pushing)
- **pouring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pausing-vs-pouring)
- **pissing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pausing-vs-pissing)
- **pruning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pausing-vs-pruning)
- **phasing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pausing-vs-phasing)
- **pulsing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pausing-vs-pulsing)
- **pouting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pausing-vs-pouting)
- **praising** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pausing-vs-praising)
- **perusing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pausing-vs-perusing)
- **pacing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pacing-vs-pausing)
- **paging** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/paging-vs-pausing)
- **passing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/passing-vs-pausing)
- **parking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/parking-vs-pausing)
- **packing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/packing-vs-pausing)
- **pairing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pairing-vs-pausing)
- **Pauline** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pauline-vs-pausing)

## Common misspellings (10)
`apusing`, `pasuing`, `pauisng`, `pausign`, `pausingg`, `pausinng`, `pausnig`, `paussing`, `ppausing`, `puasing`

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