looting
noun, verb
looting is spelled L-O-O-T-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.9 times per million words in written English, the 15,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, looting means “The act of stealing during a crisis such as a war, riot or natural disaster, when law enforcement is ineffective or absent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of looting is lootings.
How many letters and syllables are in looting?
| Letters | 7: L-O-O-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.9 times per million words; the 15,798th 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 looting?
Looting appears 2.9 times per million words in written English, the 15,798th 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 looting?
Looting 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-looting.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with looting?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as looting.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tooling.
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 looting
- lootings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does looting mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of stealing during a crisis such as a war, riot or natural disaster, when law enforcement is ineffective or absent.
Near-synonym: plundering
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of loot
While looting the stores the looters took the opportunity for revenge by destroying what they didn't steal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Looting in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense act of looting:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pillage |
| German | Plünderung |
| Spanish | saqueo, expoliación |
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.