marking
/ˈmɑɹkɪŋ/noun, verb
marking is spelled M-A-R-K-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 8.9 times per million words in written English, the 7,672nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, marking means “The action of marking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of marking is markings.
How many letters and syllables are in marking?
| Letters | 7: M-A-R-K-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.9 times per million words; the 7,672nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 marking?
Marking appears 8.9 times per million words in written English, the 7,672nd 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 marking?
- US /ˈmɑɹkɪŋ/
- UK /ˈmɑːkɪŋ/
Marking 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-marking.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with marking?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as marking from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹkɪŋ/):
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 marking
- markings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does marking mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The action of marking.
- 2
A mark.
- 3
The characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal.
- 4
A symbol or set of letters used to identify the type or identity of an object.
The markings on the plane identified it as belonging to law enforcement.
- 5
Any configuration of a Petri net with a number of marks or tokens distributed across it.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of mark
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does marking come from?
From Middle English marking, merking, merkunge, from Old English mearcung, from Proto-West Germanic *markungu, equivalent to mark + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).