containing
/kənˈteɪnɪŋ/noun, verb
containing is spelled C-O-N-T-A-I-N-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is containg: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Containing is a noun meaning “contents”. The plural of containing is containings.
How many letters and syllables are in containing?
| Letters | 10: C-O-N-T-A-I-N-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 27 times per million words; the 3,422nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, containg, about 10 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 containing?
Containing is spelled C-O-N-T-A-I-N-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 containing?
Containing appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd 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 containing?
- /kənˈteɪnɪŋ/
Containing 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-containing.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of containing
- containings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does containing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
contents
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of contain
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).