discovering
dis·cov·er·ing/dɪsˈkʌvəɹɪŋ/noun, verb
discovering is spelled D-I-S-C-O-V-E-R-I-N-G, 4 syllables: dis·cov·er·ing. The wrong spelling people search most is dicovering: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Discovering is a noun meaning “A discovery”. The plural of discovering is discoverings.
How many letters and syllables are in discovering?
| Letters | 11: D-I-S-C-O-V-E-R-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: dis·cov·er·ing |
| In writing | 6.6 times per million words; the 9,313th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, dicovering, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell discovering?
Discovering is spelled D-I-S-C-O-V-E-R-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 15 of the searches for discovering in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is discovering?
Discovering appears 6.6 times per million words in written English, the 9,313th 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 discovering?
- /dɪsˈkʌvəɹɪŋ/
Discovering has 4 syllables, split dis·cov·er·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-discovering.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of discovering
- discoverings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does discovering mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A discovery.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of discover
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).