binning
/ˈbɪnɪŋ/noun, verb
binning is spelled B-I-N-N-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, binning means “A data pre-processing technique in which original data values fall into a small interval ("bin") and are replaced by a value representative of that…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of binning is binnings.
How many letters and syllables are in binning?
| Letters | 7: B-I-N-N-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 66,686th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 binning?
Binning appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th 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 binning?
- /ˈbɪnɪŋ/
Binning 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).
Forms of binning
- binnings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does binning mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A data pre-processing technique in which original data values fall into a small interval ("bin") and are replaced by a value representative of that interval, often the central value.
- 2
The process of grouping reads or contigs and assigning them to operational taxonomic units.
- 3
The categorization of finished products based on their characteristics.
- 4
The process of combining charge from adjacent pixels of an image sensor during readout.
- 5
The process of downscaling a digital image (or any array) by combining blocks of adjacent elements by taking the sum, average, median, minimum, or maximum of each block.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of bin
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).