functioning
adjective, noun, verb
functioning is spelled F-U-N-C-T-I-O-N-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is fucntioning: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 41 of all searches for the word. Functioning is an adjective meaning “Functional, working”.
How many letters and syllables are in functioning?
| Letters | 11: F-U-N-C-T-I-O-N-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 6,884th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, fucntioning, about 10 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 functioning?
Functioning is spelled F-U-N-C-T-I-O-N-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 41 of the searches for functioning 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 functioning?
Functioning appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 6,884th 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 functioning?
Functioning has 3 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 functioning
- more functioning comparative
- most functioning superlative
- functionings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does functioning mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Functional, working.
- 2
Of a person, mentally disabled but still able to survive in wider society.
Oh, he looked pretty functioning to me.
noun
- 1
Action of the verb function.
- 2
Manner by which something functions; the workings.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of function
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate functioning?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of functioning: Fx.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Functioning in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fonctionnement |
| German | Funktionieren , Funktionsweise |
| Spanish | funcionamiento |
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.