crawling
/ˈkɹɔːlɪŋ/noun, verb
crawling is spelled C-R-A-W-L-I-N-G: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.9 times per million words in written English, the 13,127th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, crawling means “The motion of something that crawls” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of crawling is crawlings.
How many letters and syllables are in crawling?
| Letters | 8: C-R-A-W-L-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.9 times per million words; the 13,127th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 crawling?
Crawling appears 3.9 times per million words in written English, the 13,127th 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 crawling?
- US /ˈkɹɔːlɪŋ/
- /ˈkɹɑlɪŋ/
- /ˈkɹaːlɪn/
Crawling has 2 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-crawling.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of crawling
- crawlings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does crawling mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The motion of something that crawls.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of crawl
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Crawling in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense motion of a thing that crawls:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | rastejo |
| Spanish | gateo, gateado, gateamiento, reptación |
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.