establishing
es·tab·lish·ing/ɪˈstæblɪʃɪŋ/noun, verb
establishing is spelled E-S-T-A-B-L-I-S-H-I-N-G, 4 syllables: es·tab·lish·ing. The wrong spelling people search most is establising: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 24 of all searches for the word. Establishing is a noun meaning “The act by which something is established; establishment”. The plural of establishing is establishings.
How many letters and syllables are in establishing?
| Letters | 12: E-S-T-A-B-L-I-S-H-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: es·tab·lish·ing |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,957th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, establising, about 10 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 establishing?
Establishing is spelled E-S-T-A-B-L-I-S-H-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for establishing 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 establishing?
Establishing 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 establishing?
- /ɪˈstæblɪʃɪŋ/
Establishing has 4 syllables, split es·tab·lish·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-establishing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of establishing
- establishings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does establishing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act by which something is established; establishment.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of establish
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).