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aging

/ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɪŋ/noun, adjective, verb

aging is spelled A-G-I-N-G: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, aging means “The process of becoming older or more mature” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of aging is agings.

How many letters and syllables are in aging?

Letters5: A-G-I-N-G
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing11 times per million words; the 6,674th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is aging?

Aging appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th 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 aging?

  • /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɪŋ/

Aging 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-aging.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of aging

  • agings plural
  • ageing UK
  • more aging comparative
  • most aging superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does aging mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The process of becoming older or more mature.

  2. 2

    The deliberate process of making something (such as an antique) appear (or, in science fiction, become) older than it is.

  3. 3

    The accumulation of damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time; the progressing loss of health, mobility, vibrancy and body functionality, resulting in biological death.

  4. 4

    Wear; wear and tear.

adjective

  1. 1

    CanadaUSBecoming elderly.

    The aging artist could no longer steadily hold the brush.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of age (a form of age)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Aging in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchvieillissement (the process of becoming older or more mature), sénescence (senescence), vieillissant (becoming elderly)
GermanAltern, Alterung (the process of becoming older or more mature), alternd (becoming elderly)
Portugueseenvelhecimento (the process of becoming older or more mature)
Spanishenvejecimiento (the process of becoming older or more mature), senescente, envejecedor (becoming elderly)

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.

Where does aging come from?

By surface analysis, age + -ing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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