focussing
adjective, noun, verb
focussing is an adjective meaning “Commonwealth standard spelling of focusing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-C-U-S-S-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does focussing mean?
adjective
- 1
Commonwealth standard spelling of focusing.
The bacteriologist adjusted the focussing knob on the microscope.
noun
- 1
Commonwealth standard spelling of focusing.
verb
- 1
Commonwealthpresent participle and gerund of focus
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is focussing?
Focussing appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,565th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).