factoring
noun, verb
factoring is a noun meaning “A financial transaction whereby a business sells its accounts receivable to a third party (called a factor) at a discount” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-C-T-O-R-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of factoring is factorings.
What does factoring mean?
noun
- 1
A financial transaction whereby a business sells its accounts receivable to a third party (called a factor) at a discount.
- 2
The process of rewriting an expression as the product of its factor.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of factor
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce factoring?
Factoring 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).
Forms of factoring
- factorings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is factoring?
Factoring appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,418th 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).
Factoring in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | affacturage , factorisation |
| Portuguese | factoring , fatoração, factorização |
| Spanish | factoring , factorización |
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.