besieging
noun, verb
besieging is spelled B-E-S-I-E-G-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is beseiging: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Besieging is a noun meaning “The act by which a place is besieged”. The plural of besieging is besiegings.
How many letters and syllables are in besieging?
| Letters | 9: B-E-S-I-E-G-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 54,808th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, beseiging, about 10 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 besieging?
Besieging is spelled B-E-S-I-E-G-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for besieging 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 besieging?
Besieging appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 54,808th 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 besieging?
- US
Besieging 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-besieging.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of besieging
- besiegings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does besieging mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act by which a place is besieged.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of besiege
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).