logging

/lɔɡ.ɪŋ/noun, verb

logging is spelled L-O-G-G-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, logging means “An act or instance of logging (cutting down trees)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of logging is loggings.

How many letters and syllables are in logging?

Letters	7: L-O-G-G-I-N-G
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	5.8 times per million words; the 10,196th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

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).

How common is logging?

Logging appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce logging?

UK /lɒɡ.ɪŋ/
US /lɔɡ.ɪŋ/
/lɑɡ.ɪŋ/

Logging 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)-Vealhurl-logging.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of logging

loggings plural

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

What does logging mean?

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

noun

1
An act or instance of logging (cutting down trees).
2
An act or instance of logging (making an entry in a log).

verb

1
present participle and gerund of log (a form of log)