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filling

[ˈfɪɫɪŋ]adjective, noun, verb

filling is spelled F-I-L-L-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,206th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, filling means “Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in filling?

Letters7: F-I-L-L-I-N-G
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing15 times per million words; the 5,206th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is filling?

Filling appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,206th 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 filling?

  • /ˈfɪlɪŋ/
  • US [ˈfɪɫɪŋ]

Filling has 2 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-filling.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of filling

  • more filling comparative
  • most filling superlative
  • fillings plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does filling mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach.

    a filling meal

noun

  1. 1

    Anything that is used to fill something.

  2. 2

    The contents of a pie, etc.

  3. 3

    Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.

    I will be using a rapid-setting cement filling.

  4. 4

    The woof in woven fabrics.

  5. 5

    Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.

  6. 6

    A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of fill (a form of fill)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Filling in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchconsistant (of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling…), farce, garniture (contents of a pie, etc), plombage (in dentistry)
Germansättigend, mächtig (of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling…), Füllung (anything used to fill something)
Spanishllenante, llenador (of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling…), empaste, tapadura (in dentistry), relleno (anything used to fill something)
Portugueserecheio (contents of a pie, etc), obturação, chumbo (in dentistry), enchimento (anything used to fill something)

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.

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