meeting
/ˈmitɪŋ/noun, verb
meeting is spelled M-E-E-T-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 141 times per million words in written English, the 737th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, meeting means “The act of persons or things that meet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of meeting is meetings.
How many letters and syllables are in meeting?
| Letters | 7: M-E-E-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 141 times per million words; the 737th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 meeting?
Meeting appears 141 times per million words in written English, the 737th 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 meeting?
- UK /ˈmiːtɪŋ/
- US /ˈmitɪŋ/
- US [ˈmiɾɪŋ]
Meeting 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: En-us-meeting.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with meeting?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as meeting from its last stressed vowel (/itɪŋ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: teeming.
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 meeting
- meetings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does meeting mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of persons or things that meet.
Meeting him will be exciting. I enjoy meeting new people.
- 2
A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
We need to have a meeting about that soon.
- 3
The people at such a gathering.
What has the meeting decided.
- 4
An encounter between people, even accidental.
They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
- 5
A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
- 6
datedA religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
- 7
An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
Denver meeting is a part of Intermountain yearly meeting.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of meet
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate meeting?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of meeting: mtg..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Meeting in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | rencontre , réunion |
| German | Treffen, Zusammenkunft , Versammlung, Besprechung, Sitzung, Beratung |
| Portuguese | encontro , reunião , reunidos |
| Spanish | encuentro , reunión, junta, ayuntamiento, conciliábulo |
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.
Where does meeting come from?
From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting (“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting (“meeting, encounter”), Middle Low German mö̂tinge (“meeting”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).