hoping
/ˈhoʊpɪŋ/verb, adjective
hoping is spelled H-O-P-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is hopeing: about 490 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Hoping is a verb meaning “present participle and gerund of hope”.
How many letters and syllables are in hoping?
| Letters | 6: H-O-P-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 47 times per million words; the 2,153rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, hopeing, about 490 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell hoping?
Hoping is spelled H-O-P-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is 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 hoping?
Hoping appears 47 times per million words in written English, the 2,153rd 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 hoping?
- US /ˈhoʊpɪŋ/
- UK /ˈhəʊpɪŋ/
Hoping 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-hoping.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with hoping?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as hoping from its last stressed vowel (/oʊpɪŋ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of hoping
- more hoping comparative
- most hoping superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hoping mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of hope
I'm hoping the weather will be sunny tomorrow.
adjective
- 1
rareFilled with or inspiring hope.
A hoping situation is not yet desolate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hoping in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | esperante, esperador, aguardante, aguardador |
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 hoping come from?
From hope + -ing. Cognate with German Hoffnung (“hope”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).