creating
/kɹiːˈeɪtɪŋ/noun, verb
creating is spelled C-R-E-A-T-I-N-G: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 49 times per million words in written English, the 2,072nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, creating means “creation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of creating is creatings.
How many letters and syllables are in creating?
| Letters | 8: C-R-E-A-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 49 times per million words; the 2,072nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is creating?
Creating appears 49 times per million words in written English, the 2,072nd 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 creating?
- /kɹiːˈeɪtɪŋ/
Creating 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-creating.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with creating?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as creating.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: catering.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of creating
- creatings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does creating mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
creation
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of create
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of creäte
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).