incoming
/ˈɪnˌkʌmɪŋ/adjective, interjection, noun
incoming is spelled I-N-C-O-M-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is incomming: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Incoming is an adjective meaning “Coming (or about to come) in; arriving”.
How many letters and syllables are in incoming?
| Letters | 8: I-N-C-O-M-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.5 times per million words; the 7,910th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, incomming, about 80 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 incoming?
Incoming is spelled I-N-C-O-M-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 18 of the searches for incoming 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 incoming?
Incoming appears 8.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,910th 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 incoming?
- /ˈɪnˌkʌmɪŋ/
Incoming 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-incoming.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of incoming
- incomings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does incoming mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Coming (or about to come) in; arriving.
Incoming tides cause a tidal bore in many rivers.
- 2
Succeeding to an office or other position.
The incoming prime minister gave a press conference.
interjection
- 1
A warning that something is coming towards the addressee, especially enemy artillery fire.
noun
- 1
The act of coming in; arrival.
- 2
Enemy fire directed at oneself.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate incoming?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of incoming: inc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Incoming in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 incoming come from?
From in (adverb) + coming (adjective).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).