Lossing

Lossing is not a standard English word. In contemporary usage, it most often appears as a misspelling or typographical error for losing. English grammar requires the verb lose to take the -ing form losing; therefore lossing is not recognized as a separate lexeme in major dictionaries. When encountered in texts, it is typically an error rather than a distinct term. In historical or regional spellings, words sometimes diverge, but there is no established meaning for lossing beyond this context.

Lossing may also appear as a proper noun, most commonly as a surname spelled with an initial capital L. As a surname, Lossing is associated with individuals such as Benson J. Lossing (1813–1891), an American historian and biographer renowned for his Civil War histories, including The Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States. Other people with the surname have appeared in local histories and genealogical records.

Because lossing has no widely recognized definition beyond a potential misspelling and a surname, it is generally treated as a non-standard form rather than a distinct term. See also losing; loss; disambiguation of related terms.