# relating

> English word · Verb · IPA /ɹɪˈleɪtɪŋ/ · frequency rank #5,076

## Definitions
1. present participle and gerund of relate

## Easily confused with
- **resting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relating-vs-resting)
- **renting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relating-vs-renting)
- **relative** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relating-vs-relative)
- **relation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relating-vs-relation)
- **relaxing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relating-vs-relaxing)
- **rotating** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relating-vs-rotating)
- **renaming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relating-vs-renaming)
- **reliving** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relating-vs-reliving)
- **relaying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relating-vs-relaying)
- **remaking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relating-vs-remaking)
- **retaking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relating-vs-retaking)
- **relations** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relating-vs-relations)
- **releasing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relating-vs-releasing)
- **repeating** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relating-vs-repeating)
- **replaying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/relating-vs-replaying)
- **rating** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rating-vs-relating)
- **reading** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reading-vs-relating)
- **rearing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rearing-vs-relating)
- **reaping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reaping-vs-relating)
- **reciting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reciting-vs-relating)

## Common misspellings (12)
`erlating`, `realting`, `relaitng`, `relatign`, `relatingg`, `relatinng`, `relatnig`, `relatting`, `rellating`, `reltaing`, `rleating`, `rrelating`

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