exercising
/ˈɛksɚˌsaɪzɪŋ/noun, verb
exercising is spelled E-X-E-R-C-I-S-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is excercising: about 150 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Exercising is a noun meaning “The act by which something is exercised”. The plural of exercising is exercisings.
How many letters and syllables are in exercising?
| Letters | 10: E-X-E-R-C-I-S-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.4 times per million words; the 10,680th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, excercising, about 150 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 exercising?
Exercising is spelled E-X-E-R-C-I-S-I-N-G. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for exercising 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 exercising?
Exercising appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th 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 exercising?
- US /ˈɛksɚˌsaɪzɪŋ/
Exercising has 4 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)-Vealhurl-exercising.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of exercising
- exercisings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does exercising mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act by which something is exercised.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of exercise
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).