fingerprinting
noun, verb
fingerprinting is a noun meaning “The act of recording an individual's fingerprints” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-N-G-E-R-P-R-I-N-T-I-N-G and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fingerprinting is fingerprintings.
What does fingerprinting mean?
noun
- 1
The act of recording an individual's fingerprints.
- 2
A test made to establish and confirm the properties of a material or components.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of fingerprint
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fingerprinting?
Fingerprinting 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).
Forms of fingerprinting
- fingerprintings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fingerprinting?
Fingerprinting appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,767th 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).
Fingerprinting in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | tomadura de huellas dactilares, tomamiento de huellas digitales |
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.