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drawing

/ˈdɹɑ.ɪŋ/noun, verb

drawing is spelled D-R-A-W-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 38 times per million words in written English, the 2,581st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, drawing means “A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of drawing is drawings.

How many letters and syllables are in drawing?

Letters7: D-R-A-W-I-N-G
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing38 times per million words; the 2,581st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 drawing?

Drawing appears 38 times per million words in written English, the 2,581st 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 drawing?

  • UK /ˈdɹɔː.ɪŋ/
  • /ˈdɹoː.ɹɪŋ/
  • US /ˈdɹɑ.ɪŋ/

Drawing 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-drawing.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of drawing

  • drawings plural
  • dwg

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does drawing mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.

  2. 2

    The act of producing such a picture.

  3. 3

    Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.

  4. 4

    The process of drawing or pulling something.

    Proverb: An official is great in his office as a well is rich in drawings of water.

  5. 5

    An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of a blind draw, notably of lots; especially such a contest in which a winning name or number is selected randomly by removing (or drawing) it from a container, popularly a hat.

  6. 6

    A small portion of tea for steeping.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of draw (a form of draw)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate drawing?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of drawing: dwg.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Drawing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdessin (picture, likeness, diagram or representation), pige (action where the outcome is selected by chance…)
GermanZeichnung, Bild (picture, likeness, diagram or representation), Auslosung, Ziehung (action where the outcome is selected by chance…), Zeichnen (graphic art form)
Portuguesedesenho (picture, likeness, diagram or representation), sorteio (action where the outcome is selected by chance…), desenhação (act of producing a picture)
Spanishdibujo, esquema, croquis (picture, likeness, diagram or representation), sorteo (action where the outcome is selected by chance…), dibujar (act of producing a picture)

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 drawing come from?

From Middle English drauing, drawing, equivalent to draw + -ing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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