complaining
com·plain·ing/kəmˈpleɪn.ɪŋ/noun, adjective, verb
complaining is spelled C-O-M-P-L-A-I-N-I-N-G, 3 syllables: com·plain·ing. The wrong spelling people search most is complaing: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 20 of all searches for the word. Complaining is a noun meaning “The act by which someone complains; a complaint”. The plural of complaining is complainings.
How many letters and syllables are in complaining?
| Letters | 11: C-O-M-P-L-A-I-N-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: com·plain·ing |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,878th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, complaing, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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 complaining?
Complaining is spelled C-O-M-P-L-A-I-N-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 20 of the searches for complaining 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 complaining?
Complaining appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,878th 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 complaining?
- /kəmˈpleɪn.ɪŋ/
Complaining has 3 syllables, split com·plain·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-complaining.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of complaining
- complainings plural
- more complaining comparative
- most complaining superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does complaining mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act by which someone complains; a complaint.
adjective
- 1
Continuously expressing dissatisfaction or annoyance.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of complain
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).