existing
/ɪɡˈzɪstɪŋ/adjective, verb
existing is spelled E-X-I-S-T-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is exisiting: about 130 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Existing is an adjective meaning “That exists, or has existence, especially that exists now”.
How many letters and syllables are in existing?
| Letters | 8: E-X-I-S-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 56 times per million words; the 1,822nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, exisiting, about 130 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 existing?
Existing is spelled E-X-I-S-T-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure.
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 existing?
Existing appears 56 times per million words in written English, the 1,822nd 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 existing?
- /ɪɡˈzɪstɪŋ/
Existing 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-existing.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does existing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
That exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of exist
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Existing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense that exists:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | existant |
| German | bestehend, existierend |
| Portuguese | existente |
| Spanish | existente |
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.