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computing

/kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ/noun, verb

computing is spelled C-O-M-P-U-T-I-N-G: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, computing means “The process or act of calculation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of computing is computings.

How many letters and syllables are in computing?

Letters9: C-O-M-P-U-T-I-N-G
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing12 times per million words; the 6,347th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is computing?

Computing appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th 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 computing?

  • /kəmˈpjuːtɪŋ/

Computing has 3 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-computing.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of computing

  • computings plural

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

What does computing mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The process or act of calculation.

  2. 2

    The use of a computer or computers.

  3. 3

    The study of computers and computer programming.

    This course will cover several major fields of computing.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

Computing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchutilisation d'un ordinateur (action of using a computer), informatique (the study, field of computers and computer…)
GermanEDV (action of using a computer), Informatik, Computerei (the study, field of computers and computer…)
Portuguesecomputação (action of using a computer), informática (the study, field of computers and computer…)
Spanishcomputación (action of using a computer), informática (the study, field of computers and computer…)

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 computing come from?

By surface analysis, compute + -ing.

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

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