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mailing

/ˈmeɪlɪŋ/noun, verb

mailing is spelled M-A-I-L-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 4.0 times per million words in written English, the 12,940th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mailing means “An act of sending mail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mailing is mailings.

How many letters and syllables are in mailing?

Letters7: M-A-I-L-I-N-G
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing4.0 times per million words; the 12,940th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 mailing?

Mailing appears 4.0 times per million words in written English, the 12,940th 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 mailing?

  • /ˈmeɪlɪŋ/

Mailing 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)-Persent101-mailing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of mailing

  • mailings plural

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

What does mailing mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An act of sending mail.

  2. 2

    obsoleteA farm.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of mail (a form of mail)

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

Where does mailing come from?

See mail (“rent”).

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

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