Spelling

Haveing or having?

Having is the right spelling. Haveing is a common misspelling of it.

CorrectHAV​ING
IncorrectHAVEING

HAVEING adds an E that HAVING does not have.

Why people write HAVEING

An extra vowel often creeps in where a word gains an ending (true becomes truly, not truely) or where the spoken word seems to need one.

Have drops its E before -ing.

How often HAVING is misspelled

In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), HAVEING appears 2 times for every 1,000 HAVING, about once for every 500 correct uses.

Is HAVEING a word?

No. HAVEING is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. HAVING is in all three and scores 13 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.

What having means

verb: Have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense.

More words with the same mistake

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More spelling help

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