# smoothing

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #27,645

## Definitions
1. The act by which something is made smooth.
2. Monophthongization.
3. creation of an approximating function that attempts to capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise or other fine-scale structures/rapid phenomena.

## Easily confused with
- **soothing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/smoothing-vs-soothing)
- **shooting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shooting-vs-smoothing)
- **smoothie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/smoothie-vs-smoothing)

## Common misspellings (14)
`msoothing`, `smmoothing`, `smoohting`, `smoothhing`, `smoothign`, `smoothingg`, `smoothinng`, `smoothnig`, `smootihng`, `smootthing`, `smothing`, `smotohing`, `somothing`, `ssmoothing`

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