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bleeding

bleed·ing/ˈbliːdɪŋ/adjective, adverb, noun, verb

bleeding is spelled B-L-E-E-D-I-N-G: 8 letters and 2 syllables (bleed·ing). It appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,230th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, bleeding means “Losing blood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in bleeding?

Letters8: B-L-E-E-D-I-N-G
Syllables2: bleed·ing
In writing12 times per million words; the 6,230th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is bleeding?

Bleeding appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,230th 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 bleeding?

  • /ˈbliːdɪŋ/

Bleeding has 2 syllables, split bleed·ing in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-bleeding.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of bleeding

  • bleedings plural

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

What does bleeding mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Losing blood.

  2. 2

    UKslangextreme, outright; bloody, blasted.

    You are a bleeding liar. Truth is of no interest to you at all.

adverb

  1. 1

    UKslangused as an intensifier: Extremely.

    His car's motor is bleeding smoking down the motorway.

noun

  1. 1

    The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.

    Internal bleeding is often difficult to detect and can lead to death in a short time.

  2. 2

    Bloodletting.

  3. 3

    Depletion of a given resource; draining, sapping, weakening.

    the bleeding of the budget

  4. 4

    colloquialMenstruation.

    Owing to the prudery of Victorian times, people hardly dared talk about bleeding at all – even privately, let alone publicly.

  5. 5

    The migration of impressions (dents), ink, or both through the substrate (paper or otherwise).

  6. 6

    Printing past the edge of the leaf (past the trim).

verb

  1. 1

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

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

Bleeding in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsaignant (losing blood), saignement, hémorragie (the flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood…)
GermanBlutung (the flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood…)
Portuguesesangramento, hemorragia (the flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood…)
Spanishsangrado, sangramiento, sangradura (the flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood…)

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 bleeding come from?

By surface analysis, bleed + -ing.

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

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