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franking

noun, verb

franking is a noun meaning “A device or marking such as postage stamp, printed or stamped impressions, codings, labels, manuscript writings, or any other authorized form of…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-N-K-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of franking is frankings.

What does franking mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A device or marking such as postage stamp, printed or stamped impressions, codings, labels, manuscript writings, or any other authorized form of markings affixed or applied to mails to qualify them to be postally serviced.

  2. 2

    AustraliaA corporate tax system in which some or all of the tax paid by a company may be attributed, or imputed, to the shareholders by way of a tax credit to reduce the income tax payable on a distribution.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

How do you pronounce franking?

  • Australia

Franking 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-AU_ck1_franking.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of franking

  • frankings plural

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

How common is franking?

Franking appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 73,203rd 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).

Franking in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense franking:

LanguageWords
GermanFrankatur

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.