Spelling
Taining or tanning?
Tanning is the right spelling. Taining is a common misspelling of it.
TAINING has I where TANNING has N.
Why people write TAINING
Some letters make the same sound (C and S, C and K, G and J), so a word can be written the way it sounds and still be wrong.
Link the word to its family: absence goes with absent (the C stays), so does science with scientist.
How often TANNING is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), TAINING appears 39 times for every 1,000 TANNING, about once for every 26 correct uses.
Is TAINING a word?
No. TAINING is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. TANNING is in all three and scores 8 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What tanning means
The process of converting hides into leather.
More spelling help
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