adding
/ˈæ.dɪŋ/noun, verb
adding is spelled A-D-D-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is ading: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Adding is a noun meaning “An act of addition”. The plural of adding is addings.
How many letters and syllables are in adding?
| Letters | 6: A-D-D-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 47 times per million words; the 2,153rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, ading, about 90 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell adding?
Adding is spelled A-D-D-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for adding in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is adding?
Adding appears 47 times per million words in written English, the 2,153rd 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).
How do you pronounce adding?
- /ˈæ.dɪŋ/
Adding has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-adding.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of adding
- addings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does adding mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An act of addition.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of add
For quotations using this term, see Citations:adding.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).