dropping
drop·ping/ˈdɹɑpɪŋ/noun, verb
dropping is spelled D-R-O-P-P-I-N-G, 2 syllables: drop·ping. The wrong spelling people search most is droping: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Dropping is a noun meaning “Something dropped; a droplet”. The plural of dropping is droppings.
How many letters and syllables are in dropping?
| Letters | 8: D-R-O-P-P-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: drop·ping |
| In writing | 21 times per million words; the 4,076th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, droping, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell dropping?
Dropping is spelled D-R-O-P-P-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for dropping 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 dropping?
Dropping appears 21 times per million words in written English, the 4,076th 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 dropping?
- UK /ˈdɹɒpɪŋ/
- US /ˈdɹɑpɪŋ/
Dropping has 2 syllables, split drop·ping in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-dropping.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with dropping?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as dropping from its last stressed vowel (/ɑpɪŋ/):
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 dropping
- droppings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dropping mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Something dropped; a droplet.
- 2
A piece of animal excrement; dung.
a rabbit dropping
- 3
The act of something that drops or falls.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of drop
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Dropping in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense animal excrement:
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 dropping come from?
By surface analysis, drop + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).