addressing
ad·dress·ing/əˈdɹɛsɪŋ/noun, verb
addressing is spelled A-D-D-R-E-S-S-I-N-G, 3 syllables: ad·dress·ing. The wrong spelling people search most is adressing: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Addressing is a noun meaning “A process of putting a person's name and address on an item of mail”. The plural of addressing is addressings.
How many letters and syllables are in addressing?
| Letters | 10: A-D-D-R-E-S-S-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: ad·dress·ing |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,456th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, adressing, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 addressing?
Addressing is spelled A-D-D-R-E-S-S-I-N-G. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for addressing 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 addressing?
Addressing appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,456th 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 addressing?
- /əˈdɹɛsɪŋ/
Addressing has 3 syllables, split ad·dress·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-addressing.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of addressing
- addressings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does addressing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A process of putting a person's name and address on an item of mail
- 2
Any of several methods of locating and accessing information within storage
- 3
A mode, manner, or form of direct speech to an audience.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of address
For quotations using this term, see Citations:addressing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Addressing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the process of placing an address on something:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | adressage |
| Portuguese | endereçamento |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.