including
/ɪnˈkluːdɪŋ/preposition, verb
including is spelled I-N-C-L-U-D-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is incuding: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 97 of all searches for the word. Including is a preposition meaning “Such as, among which; introducing one or more parts of the group or topic just mentioned”.
How many letters and syllables are in including?
| Letters | 9: I-N-C-L-U-D-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 331 times per million words; the 282nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, incuding, about 10 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 including?
Including is spelled I-N-C-L-U-D-I-N-G. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 49 of the searches for including 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 including?
Including appears 331 times per million words in written English, the 282nd 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 including?
- /ɪnˈkluːdɪŋ/
- /ɪŋˈkluːdɪŋ/
Including 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). Recordings: En-us-including.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of including
- incl.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does including mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
preposition
- 1
Such as, among which; introducing one or more parts of the group or topic just mentioned.
All you have to do is to fill in the details, including your name and address and the amount you wish to give.
- 2
nonstandardrareIntroducing a finite clause.
I have always argued that it is one that deserves a thorough-going policy review, which might come to all sorts of conclusions, including it is doing what the Government of the day wants it to.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of include
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate including?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of including: incl, incl..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Including in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense such as, among which:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | y compris, dont |
| German | einschließlich |
| Portuguese | incluindo |
| Spanish | incluido, inclusive, incluyendo |
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 including come from?
By surface analysis, include + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).