# scoring

> English word · Adjective · frequency rank #3,907

## Definitions
1. Of something or someone that scores.

## Easily confused with
- **scorn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-scorn)
- **spring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-spring)
- **string** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-string)
- **sowing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-sowing)
- **showing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-showing)
- **sharing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-sharing)
- **smoking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-smoking)
- **staring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-staring)
- **slowing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-slowing)
- **storing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-storing)
- **soaring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-soaring)
- **snoring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-snoring)
- **shoving** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-shoving)
- **snowing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-snowing)
- **sloping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-sloping)
- **sparing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-sparing)
- **searing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-searing)
- **stoning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-stoning)
- **sporting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-sporting)
- **securing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoring-vs-securing)

## Common misspellings (11)
`csoring`, `sccoring`, `scoirng`, `scorign`, `scoringg`, `scorinng`, `scornig`, `scorring`, `scroing`, `socring`, `sscoring`

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