Words ending in ING

There are 12,387 words ending in ING in our word list. 993 of them are common everyday words, such as ANYTHING, BEING, DOING and DURING. They range from 4 to 15 letters, and 9-letter words are the biggest group, with 2,287.

Words: 12,387
Common words: 993
Longest: NOTWITHSTANDING; 15 letters
Top score: PSYCHOANALYZING; 38 points

-ING forms the present participle of verbs, as in RUNNING, and many nouns, as in BUILDING. It is one of the most common endings in English.

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4-letter words (9)

king
ring
sing
wing
ding
ling
ping
ting
zing

5-letter words (34)

being
doing
going
thing
bring
using
dying
lying
aging
swing
owing
sting
suing
tying
cling
fling
icing
sling
boing
vying
wring
acing
aping
axing
eying
cuing
eking
ruing
awing
iring
oping
hying
ohing
piing

6-letter words (377)

during
having
making
coming
giving
living
moving
saying
seeing
taking
trying
acting
adding
asking
buying
crying
dating
eating
ending
facing
flying
hoping
losing
mining
paying
racing
rising
saving
spring
voting
boring
boxing
caring
dining
diving
filing
firing
fixing
gaming
hiding
hiring
joking
laying
loving
mixing
noting
rating
riding
ruling
string
timing
aiming
airing
baking
biting

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7-letter words (1,513)

getting
looking
nothing
amazing
feeling
leading
meeting
missing
morning
playing
reading
running
talking
waiting
working
writing
burning
calling
causing
cutting
dancing
dealing
drawing
driving
evening
falling
finding
funding
growing
hanging
hearing
helping
holding
housing
keeping
killing
knowing
leaving
letting
meaning
opening
passing
putting
seeking
selling
sending
serving
setting
sharing
showing
singing
sitting
smoking
staying
telling

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8-letter words (2,007)

anything
building
starting
thinking
training
watching
allowing
becoming
breaking
bringing
carrying
changing
creating
drinking
exciting
existing
fighting
laughing
learning
offering
painting
planning
shipping
shooting
shopping
sleeping
speaking
spending
standing
teaching
annoying
applying
arriving
assuming
avoiding
bleeding
blessing
blocking
breeding
catching
charging
charming
cheating
checking
choosing
claiming
cleaning
clearing
climbing
clothing
coaching
counting
covering
crossing
deciding

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9-letter words (2,287)

including
something
according
beginning
following
depending
happening
listening
marketing
operating
providing
receiving
recording
regarding
remaining
reporting
suffering
wondering
accepting
achieving
affecting
answering
appearing
attacking
attending
believing
belonging
breathing
comparing
competing
computing
confusing
defending
demanding
expanding
expecting
exploring
extending
featuring
financing
finishing
gathering
governing
improving
inspiring
investing
involving
lightning
measuring
preparing
producing
promising
promoting
reasoning
referring

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10-letter words (2,268)

everything
developing
increasing
performing
supporting
accounting
addressing
attempting
collecting
completing
concerning
conducting
connecting
consisting
consulting
containing
continuing
delivering
describing
destroying
discussing
disgusting
disturbing
explaining
indicating
monitoring
presenting
pretending
preventing
processing
protecting
publishing
purchasing
qualifying
responding
struggling
suggesting
surprising
travelling
underlying
abandoning
advocating
announcing
attracting
bargaining
comforting
commanding
commenting
committing
compelling
comprising
concluding
confirming
contacting
converting

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11-letter words (1,753)

interesting
advertising
considering
engineering
outstanding
approaching
celebrating
challenging
complaining
controlling
encouraging
fascinating
functioning
identifying
introducing
maintaining
programming
questioning
surrounding
threatening
alternating
astonishing
calculating
campaigning
circulating
conflicting
contracting
criticizing
determining
devastating
discovering
downloading
eliminating
forthcoming
frightening
frustrating
fundraising
handwriting
influencing
integrating
interacting
interfering
negotiating
neighboring
overlapping
overlooking
positioning
progressing
recognizing
remembering
researching
restricting
stimulating
trafficking
undertaking

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12-letter words (1,078)

broadcasting
contributing
embarrassing
entertaining
establishing
experiencing
overwhelming
representing
thanksgiving
accompanying
breathtaking
conditioning
constructing
coordinating
disappearing
distributing
highlighting
implementing
interviewing
intimidating
neighbouring
recommending
specializing
storytelling
transferring
transforming
transporting
volunteering
accelerating
accumulating
anticipating
appreciating
bodybuilding
cheerleading
compensating
compromising
debilitating
discouraging
encompassing
encountering
enlightening
exaggerating
excruciating
exhilarating
facilitating
guaranteeing
heartwarming
housekeeping
illuminating
illustrating
interpreting
interrupting
manipulating
overcrowding
overreacting

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13-letter words (607)

manufacturing
understanding
corresponding
disappointing
investigating
participating
acknowledging
communicating
concentrating
contemplating
demonstrating
experimenting
heartbreaking
incorporating
restructuring
strengthening
accommodating
accomplishing
administering
collaborating
commemorating
commissioning
condescending
consolidating
contradicting
deteriorating
incriminating
merchandising
photographing
skateboarding
weightlifting
appropriating
assassinating
brainstorming
circumventing
complementing
complimenting
comprehending
contaminating
corroborating
destabilizing
disconcerting
disconnecting
discontinuing
disheartening
disqualifying
disrespecting
disseminating
eavesdropping
extinguishing
foreshadowing
grandstanding
hallucinating
homeschooling
impersonating

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14-letter words (292)

congratulating
discriminating
distinguishing
groundbreaking
uncompromising
bioengineering
characterizing
counterfeiting
deconstructing
disintegrating
fingerprinting
gerrymandering
malfunctioning
mountaineering
reconstructing
rehabilitating
authenticating
choreographing
countervailing
electioneering
electroplating
incapacitating
indoctrinating
overestimating
philosophizing
reconditioning
redistributing
reestablishing
reinterpreting
semiconducting
subcontracting
superintending
underachieving
whistleblowing
administrating
backscattering
circumscribing
decentralizing
disadvantaging
disassociating
disillusioning
disorientating
editorializing
flabbergasting
foreshortening
grandfathering
immunoblotting
mispronouncing
misremembering
nonthreatening
propagandizing
propositioning
quarterbacking
rebroadcasting
recapitulating

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15-letter words (162)

notwithstanding
decommissioning
differentiating
misrepresenting
procrastinating
revolutionizing
superconducting
troubleshooting
underestimating
commercializing
conceptualizing
decriminalizing
inconveniencing
interconnecting
misinterpreting
conceptualising
contextualizing
decontaminating
excommunicating
individualizing
industrialising
industrializing
multiprocessing
oversimplifying
preconditioning
remanufacturing
revolutionising
uncomprehending
unprepossessing
commercialising
counterpunching
dematerializing
depersonalizing
disestablishing
hyperpolarizing
overemphasizing
overprescribing
overstimulating
phosphorylating
prognosticating
psychoanalyzing
reappropriating
recommissioning
recrystallizing
reincorporating
reinvestigating
transliterating
transmogrifying
unaccommodating
weatherproofing
anagrammatizing
antishoplifting
bourgeoisifying
bureaucratising
bureaucratizing

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Darker borders mark common everyday words. Rarer words follow in each group.

Questions

How many words ending in ING are there?

Our word list has 12,387 words ending in ING. 993 of them are common everyday words.

What is the longest word ending in ING?

The longest have 15 letters, for example NOTWITHSTANDING, DECOMMISSIONING and DIFFERENTIATING.

Which word ending in ING scores the most points?

Using standard letter tile values, PSYCHOANALYZING scores 38 points, the most of any word ending in ING in our list.