copying

copy·ing/ˈkɑpiɪŋ/noun, verb

copying is spelled C-O-P-Y-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables (copy·ing). It appears 4.8 times per million words in written English, the 11,541st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, copying means “an instance of the making of a copy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of copying is copyings.

How many letters and syllables are in copying?

Letters	7: C-O-P-Y-I-N-G
Syllables	2: copy·ing
In writing	4.8 times per million words; the 11,541st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

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).

How common is copying?

Copying appears 4.8 times per million words in written English, the 11,541st most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce copying?

US /ˈkɑpiɪŋ/
UK /ˈkɒpiɪŋ/

Copying has 2 syllables, split copy·ing in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-copying.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of copying

copyings plural

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

What does copying mean?

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

noun

1
an instance of the making of a copy
2
the practice of making one or more copies

verb

1
present participle and gerund of copy (a form of copy)