# timing

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈtaɪmɪŋ/ · frequency rank #4,418

## Definitions
1. An occurrence or event.
2. The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.
3. The time when something happens.
4. The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.
5. An instance of recording the time of something.

## Easily confused with
- **ting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/timing-vs-ting)
- **tying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/timing-vs-tying)
- **Timon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/timing-vs-timon)
- **trying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/timing-vs-trying)
- **typing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/timing-vs-typing)
- **tuning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/timing-vs-tuning)
- **tiring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/timing-vs-tiring)
- **tubing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/timing-vs-tubing)
- **Turing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/timing-vs-turing)
- **toying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/timing-vs-toying)
- **toning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/timing-vs-toning)
- **tipping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/timing-vs-tipping)
- **toiling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/timing-vs-toiling)
- **trimming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/timing-vs-trimming)
- **thing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thing-vs-timing)
- **timid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/timid-vs-timing)
- **taking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/taking-vs-timing)
- **taxing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/taxing-vs-timing)
- **taping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/taping-vs-timing)
- **tiling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tiling-vs-timing)

## Common misspellings (9)
`itming`, `tiimng`, `timign`, `timingg`, `timinng`, `timming`, `timnig`, `tmiing`, `ttiming`

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