getting
/ˈɡɛtɪŋ/noun, verb
getting is spelled G-E-T-T-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is geting: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Getting is a noun meaning “The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition”. The plural of getting is gettings.
How many letters and syllables are in getting?
| Letters | 7: G-E-T-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 372 times per million words; the 242nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, geting, about 90 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 getting?
Getting is spelled G-E-T-T-I-N-G. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure.
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 getting?
Getting appears 372 times per million words in written English, the 242nd 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 getting?
- /ˈɡɛtɪŋ/
Getting 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-us-getting.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of getting
- gettings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does getting mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.
- 2
That which is got or obtained; gain; profit.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of get
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Getting in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense act of obtaining or acquiring:
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.