# praising

> English word · Verb · IPA /ˈpɹeɪzɪŋ/ · frequency rank #13,040

## Definitions
1. present participle and gerund of praise

## Easily confused with
- **pricing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/praising-vs-pricing)
- **praying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/praising-vs-praying)
- **priming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/praising-vs-priming)
- **pressing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/praising-vs-pressing)
- **prancing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/praising-vs-prancing)
- **promising** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/praising-vs-promising)
- **passing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/passing-vs-praising)
- **pairing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pairing-vs-praising)
- **pausing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pausing-vs-praising)
- **phasing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/phasing-vs-praising)
- **parsing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/parsing-vs-praising)
- **phrasing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/phrasing-vs-praising)
- **practising** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/practising-vs-praising)

## Common misspellings (12)
`parising`, `ppraising`, `praiisng`, `praisign`, `praisingg`, `praisinng`, `praisnig`, `praissing`, `prasiing`, `priasing`, `prraising`, `rpaising`

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