# rearing

> English word · Verb · frequency rank #25,545

## Definitions
1. present participle and gerund of rear

## Etymology
From Middle English rerynge (“raising”).

## Easily confused with
- **resting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-resting)
- **renting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-renting)
- **roaring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-roaring)
- **roaming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-roaming)
- **reprint** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-reprint)
- **reeling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-reeling)
- **Redding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-redding)
- **reusing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-reusing)
- **revving** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-revving)
- **relating** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-relating)
- **relaxing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-relaxing)
- **retiring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-retiring)
- **renaming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-renaming)
- **relaying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-relaying)
- **remaking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-remaking)
- **retaking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-retaking)
- **regarding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-regarding)
- **repairing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-repairing)
- **racing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/racing-vs-rearing)
- **rating** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rating-vs-rearing)

## Common misspellings (10)
`eraring`, `raering`, `reairng`, `rearign`, `rearingg`, `rearinng`, `rearnig`, `rearring`, `reraing`, `rrearing`

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