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capsizing

noun, verb

capsizing is spelled C-A-P-S-I-Z-I-N-G: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, capsizing means “An overturning of a boat etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of capsizing is capsizings.

How many letters and syllables are in capsizing?

Letters9: C-A-P-S-I-Z-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 8 million words; the 82,325th 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 capsizing?

Capsizing appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th 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 capsizing?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-capsizing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of capsizing

  • capsizings plural

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

What does capsizing mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An overturning of a boat etc.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

Capsizing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense An overturning of a boat:

LanguageWords
Frenchchavirage
GermanKentern

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.

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