counselling

verb, noun

counselling is a verb meaning “present participle and gerund of counsel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-U-N-S-E-L-L-I-N-G, and it appears 2.8 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does counselling mean?

verb

1
UKpresent participle and gerund of counsel (a form of counsel)

noun

1
UKAlternative spelling of counseling.

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

Forms of counselling

counsellings plural

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

How common is counselling?

Counselling appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,005th most frequent word form in the list.

counselling0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

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

Words people confuse with counselling

Also written: counseling.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).