Words Ending In ING

Last updated: October 1, 2026

The open ENABLE word list has 12,531 words that end in ING, about 7.3% of the 172,434 words this site shows. The longest is OVERINTELLECTUALIZING; the shortest are DING, KING and LING. Using commonly used tile values, HYPOPHYSECTOMIZING (48 points) scores the most. 2,002 have no repeated letter at all. This is a general word list, not any game's official one; always check the rules of your game.

About the suffix -ING

The ending ing is the most familiar suffix in English. It forms the present participle of verbs (“she is reading”) and the gerund, the verb used as a noun (“reading is fun”). It also appears in plain nouns that have drifted away from their verbs, such as building and ceiling, and in many words where -ing is not a suffix at all, like king, sing and thing.

Spelling rules around -ing explain many of the patterns in this list: a silent E is usually dropped (make becomes making), a final consonant is often doubled after a short vowel (run becomes running), and verbs ending in -ie switch to -y (tie becomes tying). Because so many verbs take -ing, the list of words ending in I-N-G is very long and is split here by the letter that comes before it.

The share of the whole list that ends in -ing shows how strongly inflected forms shape any word list.

At a glance

Fact	Value
Words in this list	12,531
Share of the ENABLE list shown on this site	7.3%
Longest	`OVERINTELLECTUALIZING` (21 letters)
Shortest	`DING`, `KING` and `LING` and 6 more (4 letters)
Highest base score (common values)	`HYPOPHYSECTOMIZING`, 48
No repeated letters	2,002

Most common letter before ING

Letter	Words
T	2,603
L	1,362
R	1,130
N	842
S	783

Patterns in this list

None of these words is a palindrome (the same backward and forward).
6,530 leave another word when the final ING is taken off, for example AAHING, ABANDONING, ABASHING, ABASING and ABDUCTING → AAH, ABANDON, ABASH, ABAS and ABDUCT.
The most common number of vowels (A, E, I, O, U) is 3, found in 4,584 of these words.
The average length is 9.7 letters.
Before ING, the letter T appears most often (2,603 words).

Open a smaller list

With 12,531 words, this list is split into smaller pages by the letter before. Each page shows its complete list.

…BING 149
…CING 255
…DING 715
…EING 103
…FING 110
…GING 438
…HING 530
…KING 643
…LING 1,362
…MING 352
…NING 842
…OING 104
…PING 426
…RING 1,130
…SING 783
…TING 2,603
…VING 209
…WING 228
…YING 581
…ZING 773

Other -ING words

These groups are too small for a page of their own, so they are listed here in full.

5 letters 5

axing cuing piing ruing suing

6 letters 23

baaing bluing boxing cluing coxing faxing feuing fixing foxing gluing hexing loxing mixing nixing poxing raxing skiing sluing spuing taxing truing vexing waxing

7 letters 22

arguing coaxing enduing ensuing flexing fluxing fuguing hoaxing imbuing induing issuing jinxing meouing piquing queuing roguing tabuing taxiing thouing valuing visaing voguing

8 letters 49

accruing admixing affixing alibiing annexing bemixing calquing cliquing congaing desexing detoxing dewaxing embruing hennaing hollaing huzzaing imbruing immixing indexing infixing leaguing miaouing miscuing opaquing plaguing polkaing prevuing pursuing refixing regluing relaxing remixing rescuing retaxing rewaxing rumbaing sambaing snafuing subduing telexing tissuing tonguing torquing unboxing unfixing ungluing unmixing unsexing xeroxing

9 letters 32

antiquing banjaxing befleaing bollixing bolloxing climaxing commixing cupolaing defleaing devaluing duplexing fatiguing halloaing hilloaing holloaing hulloaing obliquing outboxing outfoxing pickaxing poleaxing prefixing premixing rearguing reflexing refluxing reissuing revaluing rhumbaing safariing suffixing surtaxing

10 letters 41

assagaiing assegaiing autosexing barbecuing barbequing chivariing coannexing colloguing complexing construing continuing critiquing curlicuing dialoguing diplomaing disvaluing epiloguing flummoxing haranguing hosannaing intriguing kickboxing mascaraing misvaluing outarguing outjinxing outvaluing overmixing overtaxing perplexing plateauing postfixing prologuing proroguing reaffixing reannexing redarguing reindexing repursuing subpenaing turfskiing

11 letters 12

burlesquing cataloguing demagoguing intermixing overissuing overvaluing shanghaiing subpoenaing transfixing umbrellaing undertaxing waterskiing

12 letters 7

countersuing disemboguing letterboxing multiplexing shadowboxing transvaluing undervaluing

13 letters 3

discontinuing misconstruing outintriguing

14 letters 1

counterarguing

A sample of -ING words

An evenly spaced sample of 150 words in alphabetical order (every 83th word), to give a feel for the list.

aahing acquiring agreeing aneling appending assigning awning baptizing becudgelling belabouring bestowing blackjacking bobsledding bradding brushing butterflying canvasing categorising charging christening clerking codding comanaging concentrating constricting cordelling countersinking crinkling curtseying deadpanning decrepitating deking depersonalizing desulfurizing digging disconcerting disorientating divebombing dramatising dyking emancipating encouraging enslaving escrowing excusing exuviating feeling fining floodlighting foregoing freelancing fustigating gazetting gleeking granulating guising hankering heezing hocking housecleaning idealizing importing indulging insolubilizing internalising iodinating jigging keying lairing lecturing liquating lulling marathoning melodramatizing mineralising misdiagnosing mispointing modeling mouthing navigating noncling normalizing omening outburning outhumoring outsailing outwrestling overdrying overloving overstocking painstaking pashing perduring photosynthesizing plagiarizing polkaing prawning preforming prestructuring prolapsing puling quintupling rattling reattributing recognising redelivering reevaluating regionalizing reinsuring remediating repaying rereleasing resowing retinting rewaxing roiling rustproofing scaffolding screeding semaphoring sheeting shuting skewing slipstreaming snivelling sorting splintering stabbing stimulating stripping subspecializing superintending swinking tangling tensioning ticking topdressing translocating trothing typewriting unclosing undesigning unlashing unshackling updarting valancing visaing wampishing wenching windburning

Using these words

To find words ending in ING from your own letters, use the Word Unscrambler with ING in Ends with, or try a pattern such as ???ING in the Crossword Solver. Words come from the open ENABLE word list. Different games use different dictionaries, so always check the rules of your game.