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channelling

noun, verb

channelling is spelled C-H-A-N-N-E-L-L-I-N-G: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,788th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, channelling means “A channel or furrow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of channelling is channellings.

How many letters and syllables are in channelling?

Letters11: C-H-A-N-N-E-L-L-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 56,788th 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 channelling?

Channelling appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,788th 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).

Words people confuse with channelling

Also written: channeling.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of channelling

  • channellings plural
  • channeling US

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

What does channelling mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A channel or furrow.

  2. 2

    The act by which something is channelled.

    The medium claimed to have taken part in channellings of the spirits of the dead.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

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