entertaining
en·ter·tain·ing/ˌɛntəɹˈteɪnɪŋ/adjective, verb
entertaining is spelled E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-I-N-G, 4 syllables: en·ter·tain·ing. The wrong spelling people search most is intertaining: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 130 of all searches for the word. Entertaining is an adjective meaning “Very amusing; that entertains”.
How many letters and syllables are in entertaining?
| Letters | 12: E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: en·ter·tain·ing |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,957th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, intertaining, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell entertaining?
Entertaining is spelled E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 130 of the searches for entertaining 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 entertaining?
Entertaining appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,957th 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 entertaining?
- /ˌɛntəɹˈteɪnɪŋ/
- /ˌɛntəːˈteɪnɪŋ/
Entertaining has 4 syllables, split en·ter·tain·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-entertaining.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of entertaining
- more entertaining comparative
- most entertaining superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does entertaining mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Very amusing; that entertains.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of entertain
noun
- 1
archaicEntertainment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Entertaining in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense amusing:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | divertissant, distrayant |
| German | unterhaltsam |
| Spanish | divertido, entretenido, ameno, entretenedor, entreteniente, divirtiente |
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 entertaining come from?
From entertain + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).