booking
/ˈbʊkɪŋ/noun, verb
booking is spelled B-O-O-K-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, booking means “The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of booking is bookings.
How many letters and syllables are in booking?
| Letters | 7: B-O-O-K-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.2 times per million words; the 8,784th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is booking?
Booking appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th 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 booking?
- US /ˈbʊkɪŋ/
- British /ˈbɵkɪŋ/
- /ˈbuːkɪŋ/
Booking 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)-Vealhurl-booking.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with booking?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as booking from its last stressed vowel (/ʊkɪŋ/):
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 booking
- bookings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does booking mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting.
- 2
A reservation for a service, such as travel or hotel accommodation.
- 3
The engagement of a performer for a particular performance.
- 4
The issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, and results in a yellow card or (after two bookings) a red card, that is to say, the player is sent from the field of play.
- 5
The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording the identifying data of a suspect following arrest.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of book
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate booking?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of booking: bkg.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Booking in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | anotar , reserva |
| French | réservation , réserve |
| German | Buchung, Reservierung |
| Spanish | reserva , amonestación |
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.