choosing
/ˈt͡ʃuːzɪŋ/noun, verb
choosing is spelled C-H-O-O-S-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is chosing: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Choosing is a noun meaning “The act of making a choice”. The plural of choosing is choosings.
How many letters and syllables are in choosing?
| Letters | 8: C-H-O-O-S-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 18 times per million words; the 4,589th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, chosing, about 100 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 choosing?
Choosing is spelled C-H-O-O-S-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for choosing 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 choosing?
Choosing appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,589th 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 choosing?
- /ˈt͡ʃuːzɪŋ/
Choosing 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)-Sapaa-choosing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of choosing
- choosings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does choosing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of making a choice.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of choose
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Choosing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | escogimiento, escogencia, escogitación |
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.