exciting
/ɪkˈsʌɪtɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb
exciting is spelled E-X-C-I-T-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is exicting: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 164 of all searches for the word. Exciting is an adjective meaning “Creating or producing excitement”.
How many letters and syllables are in exciting?
| Letters | 8: E-X-C-I-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 35 times per million words; the 2,785th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, exicting, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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 exciting?
Exciting is spelled E-X-C-I-T-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 164 of the searches for exciting 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 exciting?
Exciting appears 35 times per million words in written English, the 2,785th 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 exciting?
- /ɪkˈsʌɪtɪŋ/
- /ɛkˈsʌɪtɪŋ/
Exciting 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-exciting.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of exciting
- more exciting comparative
- most exciting superlative
- excitings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does exciting mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Creating or producing excitement.
- 2
Sexually stimulating.
noun
- 1
The process of something becoming excited; excitation.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of excite
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Exciting in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense causing excitement:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | excitant |
| German | aufregend, spannend |
| Portuguese | excitante, empolgante |
| Spanish | emocionante |
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.