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landing

land·ing/ˈlændɪŋ/noun, verb

landing is spelled L-A-N-D-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables (land·ing). It appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,612th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, landing means “An arrival at a surface, as of an airplane or any descending object” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of landing is landings.

How many letters and syllables are in landing?

Letters7: L-A-N-D-I-N-G
Syllables2: land·ing
In writing25 times per million words; the 3,612th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is landing?

Landing appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,612th 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 landing?

  • /ˈlændɪŋ/

Landing has 2 syllables, split land·ing in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-landing.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of landing

  • landings plural

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

What does landing mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An arrival at a surface, as of an airplane or any descending object.

  2. 2

    An amphibious or airborne invasion.

  3. 3

    A place on a shoreline where a boat lands.

  4. 4

    A level area at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.

  5. 5

    The amount of fish caught, as in a specific area or on a particular expedition.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

How do you abbreviate landing?

Wiktionary records 5 abbreviations of landing: EDL, LHA, LHD, LPD, lndg.

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

Landing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchatterrissage (a coming to a surface, as of an airplane), palier (a platform at the top of a flight of stairs)
GermanLandung (a coming to a surface, as of an airplane), Treppenabsatz (a platform at the top of a flight of stairs), Anlegeplatz, Landungsplatz, Anlandungsplatz, Anlandungsstelle (a place on a shoreline where a boat lands)
Portugueseaterragem, aterrissagem, pouso (a coming to a surface, as of an airplane), patamar (a platform at the top of a flight of stairs)
Spanishaterrizaje (a coming to a surface, as of an airplane), rellano, descansillo (a platform at the top of a flight of stairs), muelle, desembarco (a place on a shoreline where a boat lands)

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 landing come from?

By surface analysis, land + -ing.

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

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