# praying

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #7,265

## Definitions
1. An act of saying a prayer.

## Easily confused with
- **prying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/praying-vs-prying)
- **pricing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/praying-vs-pricing)
- **proving** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/praying-vs-proving)
- **probing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/praying-vs-probing)
- **pruning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/praying-vs-pruning)
- **priming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/praying-vs-priming)
- **paying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/paying-vs-praying)
- **paving** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/paving-vs-praying)
- **pacing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pacing-vs-praying)
- **paging** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/paging-vs-praying)
- **plying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/plying-vs-praying)
- **playing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/playing-vs-praying)
- **placing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/placing-vs-praying)
- **plating** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/plating-vs-praying)
- **peaking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/peaking-vs-praying)
- **phasing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/phasing-vs-praying)
- **planing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/planing-vs-praying)
- **praising** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/praising-vs-praying)
- **partying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/partying-vs-praying)
- **phrasing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/phrasing-vs-praying)

## Common misspellings (11)
`parying`, `ppraying`, `praiyng`, `prayign`, `prayingg`, `prayinng`, `praynig`, `prayying`, `prraying`, `pryaing`, `rpaying`

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