highlighting
noun, adjective, verb
highlighting is spelled H-I-G-H-L-I-G-H-T-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is hilighting: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Highlighting is a noun meaning “The visual emphasis of text by means of a highlight”. The plural of highlighting is highlightings.
How many letters and syllables are in highlighting?
| Letters | 12: H-I-G-H-L-I-G-H-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.7 times per million words; the 11,685th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, hilighting, 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 highlighting?
Highlighting is spelled H-I-G-H-L-I-G-H-T-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for highlighting 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 highlighting?
Highlighting appears 4.7 times per million words in written English, the 11,685th 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 highlighting?
Highlighting 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 highlighting
- highlightings plural
- hiliting
- more highlighting comparative
- most highlighting superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does highlighting mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The visual emphasis of text by means of a highlight.
- 2
An area of the skin or hair containing highlights.
adjective
- 1
Causing emphasis, drawing attention; revealing.
Uplights have a more highlighting effect.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of highlight
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Highlighting in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense emphasis of text:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Hervorhebung |
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.