editing
/ˈɛdɪtɪŋ/noun, verb
editing is spelled E-D-I-T-I-N-G: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,521st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, editing means “An act or instance of something being edited” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of editing is editings.
How many letters and syllables are in editing?
| Letters | 7: E-D-I-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 19 times per million words; the 4,521st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is editing?
Editing appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,521st 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 editing?
- /ˈɛdɪtɪŋ/
Editing has 3 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-editing.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with editing?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as editing.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: dieting.
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 editing
- editings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does editing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An act or instance of something being edited.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of edit
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Editing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an act or instance of something being edited:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | rédaction |
| German | Bearbeitung |
| Portuguese | edição |
| Spanish | montaje, edición, editaje |
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.