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freaking

/ˈfɹiːkɪŋ/adjective, adverb, noun, verb

freaking is spelled F-R-E-A-K-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is freaken: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Freaking is an adjective meaning “Fucking”.

How many letters and syllables are in freaking?

Letters8: F-R-E-A-K-I-N-G
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing11 times per million words; the 6,674th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, freaken, 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 freaking?

Freaking is spelled F-R-E-A-K-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for freaking in either form.

freakingthe right spelling140 searches a month
freakene in place of i, a missing g20 searches a month

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 freaking?

Freaking appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th 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 freaking?

  • /ˈfɹiːkɪŋ/

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

Forms of freaking

  • freakings plural

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

What does freaking mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    USslangFucking.

    You're getting on my freaking nerves!

  2. 2

    obsoleteFreakish.

adverb

  1. 1

    USslangFucking.

    You think you're so freaking smart, don't you?

noun

  1. 1

    datedA streak or variegation in a pattern.

  2. 2

    A sexual style of dance similar to daggering.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

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