How to spell hoping

hear ithop·ing/'hoʊpɪŋ/verbRules and real life

What it means: Desiring something to happen.

In a sentence: I am hoping for a sunny day to play outside.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as hopeing or hopinng.

Same family: hopeful, hopefully, hoped, hopes, hopeless. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Hoping comes from the verb "hope," which goes back to Old English "hopa," meaning confidence or expectation of good. Over time, English added the -ing ending to show ongoing action, turning "hope" into "hoping" to express something you wish for right now or in the future.

Patterns it uses: Drop the e before a suffix?

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