becoming
/bɪˈkʌm.ɪŋ/noun, adjective, verb
becoming is spelled B-E-C-O-M-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is becomeing: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Becoming is a noun meaning “The act or process by which something becomes”. The plural of becoming is becomings.
How many letters and syllables are in becoming?
| Letters | 8: B-E-C-O-M-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 65 times per million words; the 1,636th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, becomeing, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell becoming?
Becoming is spelled B-E-C-O-M-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure.
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 becoming?
Becoming appears 65 times per million words in written English, the 1,636th 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 becoming?
- UK /bɪˈkʌm.ɪŋ/
- US /bɪˈkʌm.ɪŋ/
- US /bəˈkʌm.ɪŋ/
Becoming has 3 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-becoming.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with becoming?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as becoming from its last stressed vowel (/ʌmɪŋ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of becoming
- becomings plural
- more becoming comparative
- most becoming superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does becoming mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act or process by which something becomes.
adjective
- 1
pleasingly suitable; fit; congruous; beautiful
- 2
decent, respectable
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of become
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Becoming in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | devenir , décent(e), respectable |
| German | Werden , anständig, geziemend , passend, gut stehend |
| Portuguese | devir , decente, respeitável , apropriado, adequado, favorável |
| Spanish | devenir |
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.