hiking
/ˈhaɪkɪŋ/noun, verb
hiking is spelled H-I-K-I-N-G: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 7.4 times per million words in written English, the 8,669th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hiking means “Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hiking is hikings.
How many letters and syllables are in hiking?
| Letters | 6: H-I-K-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.4 times per million words; the 8,669th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is hiking?
Hiking appears 7.4 times per million words in written English, the 8,669th 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 hiking?
- /ˈhaɪkɪŋ/
Hiking 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-hiking.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hiking
- hikings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hiking mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport.
To protect the glacier, officials have limited the number of visitors to 10,000 a day and have banned hiking on the ice.
- 2
The act by which something is hiked, or raised sharply.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of hike
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hiking in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense walking:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | randonnée pédestre, randonnée |
| German | Bergwandern, Wandern |
| Portuguese | pedestrianismo, caminhada |
| Spanish | senderismo |
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.