ending
/ˈɛndɪŋ/noun, verb
ending is spelled E-N-D-I-N-G: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 48 times per million words in written English, the 2,113th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ending means “A termination or conclusion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of ending is endings.
How many letters and syllables are in ending?
| Letters | 6: E-N-D-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 48 times per million words; the 2,113th 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 ending?
Ending appears 48 times per million words in written English, the 2,113th 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 ending?
- /ˈɛndɪŋ/
Ending 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-PerfectSoundWhatever-ending.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with ending?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as ending.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ginned.
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 ending
- endings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ending mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A termination or conclusion.
- 2
The last part of something.
The book has a happy ending.
- 3
The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").
Spanish verb forms have different endings depending on the tense, mood and person.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of end
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Ending in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fin |
| German | Ende, Ablauf, Beendigung |
| Portuguese | fim, final, término, conclusão, finalização, terminação |
| Spanish | finalización , final |
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 ending come from?
From Middle English endynge, endyng, endinge, from Old English endung, ġeendung (“ending”), equivalent to end + -ing. Cognate with Dutch ending (“ending”), German Endung (“ending”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).