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-ign

-ign is the deliberate misspelling 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

Origin of -ign

Originating as a mistyping of -ing.

Questions about -ign

What is -ign the deliberate misspelling of?
-ign is the deliberate misspelling of -ing.

Words near -ign in the dictionary

  1. -ifier
  2. -ifies
  3. -iform
  4. -ify
  5. -ifying
  6. -ign
  7. -ii
  8. -ikin
  9. -ile
  10. -ilide
  11. -illiard

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -ign (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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