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-ïng

-ïng is the rare spelling of -ing.

Meaning of -ing

Suffix (1)

-ing

  1. As true nouns.
    • My hearing is not good.
  2. As gerunds.
    • Smoking marijuana cigarettes daily is bad for your health.
  3. Used to form nouns denoting materials or systems of objects which are used or employed in an action, or considered collectively.
    • Roofing is material that is used to roof.

Suffix (2)

-ing

  1. Used to form present participles of verbs.
    • Rolling stones gather no moss.

Suffix (3)

-ing

  1. (idiomatic) Forming derivative nouns (originally masculine), with the sense ‘son of, belonging to’, as in placenames, patronymics or diminutives; -ite.
    • Ealing, Dorking, Reading, Worthing
  2. Forming nouns having a specified quality, characteristic, or nature; of the kind of
    • sweet + -ing → sweeting

Questions about -ïng

What is -ïng the rare spelling of?
-ïng is the rare spelling of -ing.

Words near -ïng in the dictionary

  1. -æ
  2. -æmia
  3. -æsthesia
  4. -æsthesis
  5. -èd
  6. -ïng
  7. -ö-
  8. -’s
  9. .22
  10. .22s
  11. .357

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -ïng (page history and authors); -ing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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