# seafaring

> English word · Adjective · frequency rank #47,324

## Definitions
1. Living one's life at sea.
2. Fit to travel on the sea; seagoing.

## Etymology
From Middle English safarinde, see farand, se farinde, equivalent to sea + faring (“travelling; journeying; going”). Compare Old English sǣ-līþende (“seafaring”). Cognate with Dutch zeevarend (“seafaring”), German Low German seefahrend (“seafaring”),
German seefahrend (“seafaring”), Danish søfarende (“seafaring”), Swedish sjöfarande (“seafaring”).

## Easily confused with
- **searing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/seafaring-vs-searing)

## Common misspellings (13)
`esafaring`, `saefaring`, `seaafring`, `seafairng`, `seafarign`, `seafaringg`, `seafarinng`, `seafarnig`, `seafarring`, `seaffaring`, `seafraing`, `sefaaring`, `sseafaring`

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