dining
/ˈdaɪnɪŋ(ɡ)/noun, verb
dining is spelled D-I-N-I-N-G: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,679th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dining means “Eating dinner as a social function” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dining is dinings.
How many letters and syllables are in dining?
| Letters | 6: D-I-N-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,679th 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 dining?
Dining appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,679th 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 dining?
- UK /ˈdaɪnɪŋ(ɡ)/
Dining 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: En-us-dining.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of dining
- dinings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dining mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Eating dinner as a social function.
- 2
Entertaining someone to dinner.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of dine
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dining in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense eating dinner:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | cena |
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.