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levelling

verb, noun

levelling is spelled L-E-V-E-L-L-I-N-G: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,974th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, levelling means “present participle and gerund of level” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in levelling?

Letters9: L-E-V-E-L-L-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 31,974th 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 levelling?

Levelling appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,974th 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).

Words people confuse with levelling

Also written: leveling.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of levelling

  • levellings plural
  • leveling

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

What does levelling mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    CanadaUKpresent participle and gerund of level (a form of level)

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of leveling.

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

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