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molding

/ˈmoʊl.dɪŋ/noun, verb

molding is spelled M-O-L-D-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,651st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “molding vs moulding” about 1,600 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, molding means “The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of molding is moldings.

How many letters and syllables are in molding?

Letters7: M-O-L-D-I-N-G
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.5 times per million words; the 22,651st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people 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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is molding?

Molding appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,651st 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 molding?

  • UK /ˈməʊl.dɪŋ/
  • US /ˈmoʊl.dɪŋ/

Molding 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)-Persent101-molding.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with molding

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

molding vs moulding1,600 G

Also written: moulding.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with molding?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as molding from its last stressed vowel (/oʊldɪŋ/):

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 molding

  • moldings plural
  • moulding UK

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

What does molding mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    USThe act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.

  2. 2

    USAnything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal.

  3. 3

    USA plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface and to conceal joints, especially between unlike materials.

  4. 4

    USA planing machine for making moldings.

  5. 5

    USA machine to assist in making molds for castings.

  6. 6

    USA mill for shaping timber.

  7. 7

    USA kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

How do you abbreviate molding?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of molding: mldg..

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

Molding in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmoulage (act or process of shaping in a mold), moulure, modénature (architecture: narrow decorative surface), sable argileux (founding: sand used for making molds)
GermanAbformen, Formen, Formung, Ausformung, Formverfahren (act or process of shaping in a mold), Guss (anything cast in a mold)
Spanishmoldeado, moldeo, moldeamiento (act or process of shaping in a mold), moldura (anything cast in a mold)

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 molding come from?

From Middle English moldynge; equivalent to mold + -ing.

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

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