doing
/ˈduːɪŋ/noun, interjection, verb
doing is spelled D-O-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is doign: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 75 of all searches for the word. Doing is a noun meaning “A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it”. The plural of doing is doings.
How many letters and syllables are in doing?
| Letters | 5: D-O-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 398 times per million words; the 227th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, doign, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell doing?
Doing is spelled D-O-I-N-G. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 38 of the searches for doing 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 doing?
Doing appears 398 times per million words in written English, the 227th 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 doing?
- /ˈduːɪŋ/
- /ˈdiːɪn/
As an interjection (“The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or…”): /dɔɪŋ/.
Doing 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-ca-doing.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Aadenboy-doing_(onomatopoeia).wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with doing?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as doing.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: dingo.
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 doing
- doings plural
- dein
- deein
- doin'
- doin
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does doing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
This is his doing. (= "He did it.")
interjection
- 1
The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of do
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Doing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a deed or action:
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.
Where does doing come from?
See do.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).