flogging
/ˈflɒɡɪŋ/noun, adjective, verb
flogging is spelled F-L-O-G-G-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is floging: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 65 of all searches for the word. Flogging is a noun meaning “Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping”. The plural of flogging is floggings.
How many letters and syllables are in flogging?
| Letters | 8: F-L-O-G-G-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 34,912th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, floging, about 20 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 flogging?
Flogging is spelled F-L-O-G-G-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 66 of the searches for flogging in either form.
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 flogging?
Flogging appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,912th 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 flogging?
- /ˈflɒɡɪŋ/
Flogging 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-flogging.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flogging
- floggings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does flogging mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.
What lawbreakers like that need is a good flogging. Do that and watch the crime rate plummet.
adjective
- 1
AustraliacolloquialA minced oath of "fucking" as an intensifier.
Will you get out of the flogging bathroom? We're already running late.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of flog
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Flogging in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | flagellation |
| German | Auspeitschung |
| Portuguese | açoitamento, açoutamento |
| Spanish | azotamiento, azotada, azotaina |
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.