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indenting

noun, verb

indenting is spelled I-N-D-E-N-T-I-N-G: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, indenting means “indentation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of indenting is indentings.

How many letters and syllables are in indenting?

Letters9: I-N-D-E-N-T-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 14 million words; the 111,684th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is indenting?

Indenting appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th 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).

What rhymes with indenting?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as indenting.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: intending.

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 indenting

  • indentings plural

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

What does indenting mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    indentation

    From this Observation, I was induced to examine the grains of Wheat themselves, in order to investigate, how, and for what purpose they were formed with those indentings, chinks, or creases.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

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