continuing
/kənˈtɪn.juɪŋ/noun, adjective, verb
continuing is spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is continueing: about 270 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Continuing is a noun meaning “A continuation”. The plural of continuing is continuings.
How many letters and syllables are in continuing?
| Letters | 10: C-O-N-T-I-N-U-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 30 times per million words; the 3,114th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, continueing, about 270 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people 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); 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 continuing?
Continuing is spelled C-O-N-T-I-N-U-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 continuing?
Continuing appears 30 times per million words in written English, the 3,114th 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 continuing?
- UK /kənˈtɪn.juːɪŋ/
- US /kənˈtɪn.juɪŋ/
Continuing has 4 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-continuing.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with continuing
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of continuing
- continuings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does continuing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A continuation.
adjective
- 1
UKBeing the successor to a no longer extant organization, operating under the same name and usually claiming to be the same entity.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of continue
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate continuing?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of continuing: contg..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).