bombing
/ˈbɒmɪŋ/noun, verb
bombing is spelled B-O-M-B-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,138th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bombing means “The action of dropping bombs from the air” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bombing is bombings.
How many letters and syllables are in bombing?
| Letters | 7: B-O-M-B-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,138th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is bombing?
Bombing appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,138th 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 bombing?
- /ˈbɒmɪŋ/
Bombing 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-bombing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with bombing?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as bombing.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: mobbing.
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 bombing
- bombings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bombing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The action of dropping bombs from the air.
- 2
The action of placing and detonating bombs.
- 3
The act of bombing a drug (wrapping it in a covering before swallowing it).
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of bomb
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Bombing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | bombardement |
| German | Bombardierung , Bombenanschlag, Bombenanschläge |
| Portuguese | bombardeio |
| Spanish | bombardeo |
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.