# stringing

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #40,467

## Definitions
1. The act by which something is strung.
2. A defect in 3D printing where strings or whiskers of material are left on the finished product.

## Easily confused with
- **swinging** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stringing-vs-swinging)
- **striving** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stringing-vs-striving)
- **stripping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stringing-vs-stripping)
- **singing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/singing-vs-stringing)
- **striking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/striking-vs-stringing)
- **stinging** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stinging-vs-stringing)
- **stinking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stinking-vs-stringing)
- **striding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/striding-vs-stringing)
- **shrinking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shrinking-vs-stringing)
- **stringent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stringent-vs-stringing)
- **straining** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/straining-vs-stringing)
- **sprinting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sprinting-vs-stringing)
- **springing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/springing-vs-stringing)
- **stranding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stranding-vs-stringing)

## Common misspellings (15)
`srtinging`, `sstringing`, `stirnging`, `strigning`, `stringging`, `stringign`, `stringingg`, `stringinng`, `stringnig`, `strinigng`, `strinnging`, `strniging`, `strringing`, `sttringing`, `tsringing`

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