looping
noun, verb
looping is spelled L-O-O-P-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, looping means “Something that loops; a looped pattern or action” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of looping is loopings.
How many letters and syllables are in looping?
| Letters | 7: L-O-O-P-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.0 times per million words; the 28,556th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is looping?
Looping appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th 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 looping?
Looping 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).
What rhymes with looping?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as looping.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: pooling.
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 looping
- loopings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does looping mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Something that loops; a looped pattern or action.
- 2
A loop (aerobatic maneuver).
- 3
The practice of having a teacher remain with the same group of students for more than one school year.
- 4
The running together of ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of loop
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does looping come from?
Compare Dutch loopen (“to run”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).