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modeling

noun, verb

modeling is spelled M-O-D-E-L-I-N-G: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 8.7 times per million words in written English, the 7,797th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, modeling means “The art of sculpting models from clay etc. to create a representation of something” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of modeling is modelings.

How many letters and syllables are in modeling?

Letters8: M-O-D-E-L-I-N-G
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing8.7 times per million words; the 7,797th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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 modeling?

Modeling appears 8.7 times per million words in written English, the 7,797th 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 modeling?

  • US

Modeling has 3 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)-Wodencafe-modeling.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with modeling?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as modeling.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: goldmine.

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 modeling

  • modelings plural
  • modelling

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

What does modeling mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    USThe art of sculpting models from clay etc. to create a representation of something.

  2. 2

    USThe representation of depth in a two-dimensional image.

  3. 3

    USThe profession of someone who models clothes.

  4. 4

    USThe construction and use of a computer model of a physical system.

  5. 5

    USThe learning of a new skill by copying other people.

verb

  1. 1

    USpresent participle and gerund of model (a form of model)

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

Modeling in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmodelage (The art of sculpting models from clay), mannequinat (work of someone who models clothes), modélisation (The construction and use of a computer model)
Spanishmodelaje (work of someone who models clothes)
GermanModellierung (The construction and use of a computer model)

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 modeling come from?

From model + -ing.

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

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