encoding
en·cod·ing/ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/noun, verb
encoding is spelled E-N-C-O-D-I-N-G: 8 letters and 3 syllables (en·cod·ing). It appears 2.4 times per million words in written English, the 17,587th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, encoding means “The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of encoding is encodings.
How many letters and syllables are in encoding?
| Letters | 8: E-N-C-O-D-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: en·cod·ing |
| In writing | 2.4 times per million words; the 17,587th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is encoding?
Encoding appears 2.4 times per million words in written English, the 17,587th 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 encoding?
- US /ɪnˈkoʊdɪŋ/
- UK /ɪnˈkəʊdɪŋ/
Encoding has 3 syllables, split en·cod·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-encoding.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with encoding?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as encoding from its last stressed vowel (/oʊdɪŋ/):
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 encoding
- encodings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does encoding mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
- 2
A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for transmission to a recipient).
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of encode
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Encoding in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense character encoding (computing):
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | codage |
| German | Kodierung |
| Portuguese | codificação |
| Spanish | codificación |
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.