Doubled consonant before -ing
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listed by level
The trickiest part of making -ing forms from verbs is having to double consonants after a stressed short vowel like /e/, e.g. “get” changing to “getting” (not “geting” X). This doubling is needed because -ing after a single consonant can work like Magic E and change the vowel sound (as if “slim” changed to “sliming” instead of “slimming”). The doubled consonant is therefore needed to “block” the action of the -ing on short vowels. This page gives suitable examples of this for every language level from Elementary to Advanced, arranged alphabetically by the doubled letter.
Elementary-level words with doubled consonant before -ing
- wedding
- jogging
- drumming
- slimming
- swimming
- beginning
- running
- winning
- shopping
- stopping
- forgetting
- getting
- putting
- sitting
Pre-intermediate-level words with doubled consonant before -ing
- digging
- planning
- clapping
- dropping
- wrapping
- chatting
- cutting
- fitting
- knitting
- quitting
- shutting
Intermediate-level words with doubled consonant before -ing
- sledding
- controlling
- patrolling
- cramming
- spamming
- spinning
- tanning
- chopping
- gripping
- hopping
- napping
- shipping
- skipping
- topping
- duetting
- letting
Upper-Intermediate-level words with doubled consonant before -ing
- bedding
- bidding
- blogging
- padding
- shredding
- skidding
- begging
- dragging
- mugging
- shrugging
- zigzagging
- compelling
- fulfilling
- humming
- jamming
- scamming
- banning
- grinning
- sinning
- stunning
- dripping
- equipping
- flipping
- mopping
- ripping
- scrapping
- slapping
- slipping
- stepping
- swapping
- tripping
- zipping
- admitting
- batting
- betting
- boycotting
- committing
- emitting
- inputting
- permitting
- setting
- spitting
- splitting
- spotting
- transmitting
Advanced-level words with doubled consonant before -ing
- budding
- cladding
- kidding
- plodding
- prodding
- ramrodding
- thudding
- bootlegging
- bragging
- bugging
- chugging
- clogging
- dogging
- flagging
- flogging
- fogging
- gagging
- gigging
- hogging
- jigging
- logging
- nagging
- pegging
- plugging
- rigging
- sagging
- slagging
- slugging
- swigging
- tagging
- tugging
- twigging
- wagging
- annulling
- expelling
- gelling
- impelling
- rappelling
- repelling
- brimming
- ramming
- slamming
- slumming
- trimming
- binning
- canning
- conning
- donning
- fanning
- gunning
- manning
- panning
- penning
- pinning
- punning
- scanning
- shinning
- shunning
- skinning
- spanning
- thinning
- capping
- clipping
- cropping
- cupping
- lapping
- lopping
- mapping
- plopping
- propping
- quipping
- sapping
- sipping
- snapping
- snipping
- stripping
- supping
- tapping
- tipping
- trapping
- whipping
- abutting
- allotting
- blotting
- butting
- clotting
- dotting
- formatting
- fretting
- gutting
- jetting
- jotting
- jutting
- kitting
- knotting
- netting
- nutting
- outwitting
- patting
- pitting
- plotting
- potting
- rotting
- scatting
- slitting
- squatting
- strutting
- swatting
- totting
- trotting
- tutting
- wetting
