canoeing
/kəˈnuɪŋ/noun, verb
canoeing is spelled C-A-N-O-E-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is canoing: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 31 of all searches for the word. Canoeing is a noun meaning “A water sport involving travelling or racing in canoes or kayaks”. The plural of canoeing is canoeings.
How many letters and syllables are in canoeing?
| Letters | 8: C-A-N-O-E-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 33,636th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, canoing, about 80 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 canoeing?
Canoeing is spelled C-A-N-O-E-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 31 of the searches for canoeing 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 canoeing?
Canoeing appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,636th 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 canoeing?
- /kəˈnuɪŋ/
Canoeing 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).
Forms of canoeing
- canoeings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does canoeing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A water sport involving travelling or racing in canoes or kayaks.
- 2
When a cigar, cigarette, or joint burns unevenly, burning more on one side.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of canoe
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Canoeing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sport:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | canoë-kayac, canoéisme |
| Portuguese | canoagem |
| Spanish | piragüismo |
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 canoeing come from?
From canoe + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).