manufacturing
man·u·fac·tur·ing/ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃəɹɪŋ/noun, adjective, verb
manufacturing is spelled M-A-N-U-F-A-C-T-U-R-I-N-G, 5 syllables: man·u·fac·tur·ing. The wrong spelling people search most is manufaturing: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 213 of all searches for the word. Manufacturing is a noun meaning “The transformation of raw materials into finished products, usually on a large scale”. The plural of manufacturing is manufacturings.
How many letters and syllables are in manufacturing?
| Letters | 13: M-A-N-U-F-A-C-T-U-R-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5: man·u·fac·tur·ing |
| In writing | 36 times per million words; the 2,669th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, manufaturing, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell manufacturing?
Manufacturing is spelled M-A-N-U-F-A-C-T-U-R-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 213 of the searches for manufacturing in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is manufacturing?
Manufacturing appears 36 times per million words in written English, the 2,669th 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 manufacturing?
- UK /ˌmænjʊˈfækt͡ʃəɹɪŋ/
- US /ˌmænjəˈfækt͡ʃəɹɪŋ/
- US [ˌmɛənjəˈfækt͡ʃəɹɪŋ]
Manufacturing has 5 syllables, split man·u·fac·tur·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sapaa-manufacturing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of manufacturing
- manufacturings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does manufacturing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The transformation of raw materials into finished products, usually on a large scale.
- 2
The industry in which such products are made.
adjective
- 1
Used in manufacturing.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of manufacture
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate manufacturing?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of manufacturing: Mfg., manuf., mfg..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Manufacturing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Herstellung, Produktion |
| Portuguese | manufatura, fabricação |
| Spanish | fabricación, producción, manufacturación, manufactura , manufacturero |
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.