launching
noun, verb
launching is spelled L-A-U-N-C-H-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is lauching: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Launching is a noun meaning “The act by which something is launched; a launch”. The plural of launching is launchings.
How many letters and syllables are in launching?
| Letters | 9: L-A-U-N-C-H-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.8 times per million words; the 7,224th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, lauching, about 20 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 launching?
Launching is spelled L-A-U-N-C-H-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for launching 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 launching?
Launching appears 9.8 times per million words in written English, the 7,224th 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 launching?
- US
Launching 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-launching.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of launching
- launchings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does launching mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act by which something is launched; a launch.
The launching of the Titanic.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of launch
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Launching in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense act by which something is launched:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | lanzamiento |
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.