caring
/ˈkɛɹ.ɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb
caring is spelled C-A-R-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is careing: about 170 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Caring is an adjective meaning “Kind, sensitive, or empathetic”.
How many letters and syllables are in caring?
| Letters | 6: C-A-R-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 16 times per million words; the 5,121st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, careing, about 170 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell caring?
Caring is spelled C-A-R-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure.
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 caring?
Caring appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,121st 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 caring?
- UK /ˈkɛə.ɹɪŋ/
- US /ˈkɛɹ.ɪŋ/
Caring 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: En-us-caring.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with caring?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as caring from its last stressed vowel (/ɛɹɪŋ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: racing, arcing.
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 caring
- more caring comparative
- most caring superlative
- carings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does caring mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Kind, sensitive, or empathetic.
She's a very caring person; she always has a kind word for everyone.
noun
- 1
The act of one who cares.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of care
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Caring in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense kind, sensitive, empathetic:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | attentionné |
| German | fürsorglich |
| Spanish | cariñoso, cuidador |
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 caring come from?
From care + -ing. The adjective follows from the verb.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).