amazing
a·ma·zing/əˈmeɪ.zɪŋ/adjective, verb
amazing is spelled A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, 3 syllables: a·ma·zing. The wrong spelling people search most is amzing: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 127 of all searches for the word. Amazing is an adjective meaning “Causing wonder and amazement; very surprising”.
How many letters and syllables are in amazing?
| Letters | 7: A-M-A-Z-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: a·ma·zing |
| In writing | 126 times per million words; the 831st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, amzing, 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 amazing?
Amazing is spelled A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 81 of the searches for amazing 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 amazing?
Amazing appears 126 times per million words in written English, the 831st 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 amazing?
- /əˈmeɪ.zɪŋ/
- [əˈmeɪ̯.zɪŋ]
- /əˈmeɪ.zɪnɡ/
Amazing has 3 syllables, split a·ma·zing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-amazing.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of amazing
- more amazing comparative
- most amazing superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does amazing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Causing wonder and amazement; very surprising.
- 2
informalPossessing uniquely wonderful qualities; very good.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of amaze
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate amazing?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of amazing: amaze.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Amazing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | étonnant , formidable, super, extraordinaire, sensationnel |
| German | erstaunlich, unglaublich , toll, super |
| Portuguese | surpreendente |
| Spanish | asombroso, sorprendente |
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 amazing come from?
From amaze + -ing, from Old English āmasian.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).