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mentioning

men·tion·ing/ˈmɛnʃənɪŋ/noun, verb

mentioning is spelled M-E-N-T-I-O-N-I-N-G: 10 letters and 3 syllables (men·tion·ing). It appears 5.6 times per million words in written English, the 10,358th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mentioning means “The act of briefly referring to someone or something in speech or writing, usually without giving much detail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mentioning is mentionings.

How many letters and syllables are in mentioning?

Letters10: M-E-N-T-I-O-N-I-N-G
Syllables3: men·tion·ing
In writing5.6 times per million words; the 10,358th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is mentioning?

Mentioning appears 5.6 times per million words in written English, the 10,358th 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 mentioning?

  • /ˈmɛnʃənɪŋ/

Mentioning has 3 syllables, split men·tion·ing in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-mentioning.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of mentioning

  • mentionings plural

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

What does mentioning mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The act of briefly referring to someone or something in speech or writing, usually without giving much detail.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

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