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hoarding

/ˈhɔːdɪŋ/noun, verb

hoarding is spelled H-O-A-R-D-I-N-G: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hoarding means “A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hoarding is hoardings.

How many letters and syllables are in hoarding?

Letters8: H-O-A-R-D-I-N-G
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.3 times per million words; the 25,367th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 hoarding?

Hoarding appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th 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 hoarding?

  • /ˈhɔːdɪŋ/

Hoarding 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)-Sapaa-hoarding.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of hoarding

  • hoardings plural

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

What does hoarding mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them.

  2. 2

    AustraliaCanadaIrelandUKA temporary fence-like structure built around building work to add security and prevent accidents to the public.

  3. 3

    CommonwealthIrelandUKA billboard.

  4. 4

    The practice of accumulating goods.

  5. 5

    A good which is hoarded.

  6. 6

    An anxiety disorder characterized by a compulsive need to accumulate goods and feelings of anxiety or discomfort about discarding such goods.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

Hoarding in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchhourd (roofed wooden shield over the battlements), syllogomanie (anxiety disorder)
GermanHurde (roofed wooden shield over the battlements), Messie-Syndrom (anxiety disorder), Hamstern, Horten (behavior of people or animals accumulating food…)
Portuguesecadafalso (roofed wooden shield over the battlements)
Spanishcadalso (roofed wooden shield over the battlements), síndrome de acumulación compulsiva, síndrome de acaparador compulsivo (anxiety disorder)

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.

Where does hoarding come from?

From hoard (“structure”) + -ing.

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

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