# throng

> English word · Noun · IPA /θɹɒŋ/ · frequency rank #37,253

## Definitions
1. A group of people crowded or gathered closely together.
2. A group of things; a host or swarm.

## Etymology
From Middle English throng, thrang, from Old English þrang, ġeþrang (“crowd, press, tumult”), from Proto-Germanic *þrangwą, *þrangwō (“throng”), from *þrangwaz (“pressing, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *trenkʷ- (“to beat; pound; hew; press”). Cognate with Dutch drang, German Drang. Compare also German Gedränge (“throng”).

## Easily confused with
- **tong** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throng-vs-tong)
- **throw** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throng-vs-throw)
- **thrown** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throng-vs-thrown)
- **throws** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throng-vs-throws)
- **tiring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throng-vs-tiring)
- **Tyrone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throng-vs-tyrone)
- **Turing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throng-vs-turing)
- **through** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throng-vs-through)
- **throwing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throng-vs-throwing)
- **thon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thon-vs-throng)
- **thing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thing-vs-throng)
- **thong** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thong-vs-throng)
- **thang** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thang-vs-throng)
- **throb** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throb-vs-throng)
- **throat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throat-vs-throng)
- **throne** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throne-vs-throng)
- **throes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/throes-vs-throng)
- **Theron** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/theron-vs-throng)

## Common misspellings (10)
`htrong`, `thhrong`, `thorng`, `thrnog`, `throgn`, `throngg`, `thronng`, `thrrong`, `trhong`, `tthrong`

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