# stalling

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #23,112

## Definitions
1. The act of a person or thing that stalls.
2. Stabling.

## Easily confused with
- **staying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-staying)
- **stating** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-stating)
- **staring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-staring)
- **styling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-styling)
- **starting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-starting)
- **standing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-standing)
- **stealing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-stealing)
- **sterling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-sterling)
- **starring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-starring)
- **starving** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-starving)
- **swelling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-swelling)
- **Stirling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-stirling)
- **stallion** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-stallion)
- **stamping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-stamping)
- **starling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-starling)
- **stifling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-stifling)
- **Stallone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-stallone)
- **startling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-startling)
- **strolling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalling-vs-strolling)
- **Stalin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stalin-vs-stalling)

## Common misspellings (11)
`satlling`, `sstalling`, `stalilng`, `staling`, `stallign`, `stallingg`, `stallinng`, `stallnig`, `stlaling`, `sttalling`, `tsalling`

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