filming
/ˈfɪlmɪŋ/noun, verb
filming is spelled F-I-L-M-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 a noun, filming means “The action of the verb to film” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of filming is filmings.
How many letters and syllables are in filming?
| Letters | 7: F-I-L-M-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 15 times per million words; the 5,206th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 filming?
Filming 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 filming?
- /ˈfɪlmɪŋ/
Filming 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-filming.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of filming
- filmings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does filming mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The action of the verb to film.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of film
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Filming in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the action of the verb "to film":
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.