# straying

> English word · Verb · frequency rank #42,425

## Definitions
1. present participle and gerund of stray

## Easily confused with
- **string** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/straying-vs-string)
- **swaying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/straying-vs-swaying)
- **studying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/straying-vs-studying)
- **striking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/straying-vs-striking)
- **striving** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/straying-vs-striving)
- **stroking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/straying-vs-stroking)
- **striding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/straying-vs-striding)
- **streaming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/straying-vs-streaming)
- **streaking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/straying-vs-streaking)
- **saying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saying-vs-straying)
- **strain** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/strain-vs-straying)
- **staying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/staying-vs-straying)
- **stating** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stating-vs-straying)
- **staring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/staring-vs-straying)
- **staging** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/staging-vs-straying)
- **slaying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slaying-vs-straying)
- **staking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/staking-vs-straying)
- **stealing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stealing-vs-straying)
- **spraying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/spraying-vs-straying)
- **scraping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scraping-vs-straying)

## Common misspellings (13)
`srtaying`, `sstraying`, `starying`, `straiyng`, `strayign`, `strayingg`, `strayinng`, `straynig`, `strayying`, `strraying`, `stryaing`, `sttraying`, `tsraying`

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