# tolling

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #43,967

## Definitions
1. The act by which a bell is tolled.

## Etymology
From Middle English tolling.

## Easily confused with
- **toying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tolling-vs-toying)
- **Tomlin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tolling-vs-tomlin)
- **toning** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tolling-vs-toning)
- **touring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tolling-vs-touring)
- **topping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tolling-vs-topping)
- **tossing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tolling-vs-tossing)
- **touting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tolling-vs-touting)
- **Tooting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tolling-vs-tooting)
- **trolling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tolling-vs-trolling)
- **toppling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tolling-vs-toppling)
- **tellin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tellin-vs-tolling)
- **tiling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tiling-vs-tolling)
- **talking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/talking-vs-tolling)
- **telling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/telling-vs-tolling)
- **tilting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tilting-vs-tolling)
- **Tallinn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tallinn-vs-tolling)
- **tailing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tailing-vs-tolling)
- **toiling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/toiling-vs-tolling)

## Common misspellings (9)
`otlling`, `tloling`, `tolilng`, `toling`, `tollign`, `tollingg`, `tollinng`, `tollnig`, `ttolling`

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