nursing
nurs·ing/ˈnɝsɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb
nursing is spelled N-U-R-S-I-N-G, 2 syllables: nurs·ing. The wrong spelling people search most is nurshing: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 1,250 of all searches for the word. Nursing is an adjective meaning “In the state of suckling young, lactating”.
How many letters and syllables are in nursing?
| Letters | 7: N-U-R-S-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: nurs·ing |
| In writing | 21 times per million words; the 4,153rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, nurshing, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); 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 do you spell nursing?
Nursing is spelled N-U-R-S-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 1,297 of the searches for nursing in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is nursing?
Nursing appears 21 times per million words in written English, the 4,153rd 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 nursing?
- US /ˈnɝsɪŋ/
- UK /ˈnɜːsɪŋ/
Nursing has 2 syllables, split nurs·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-nursing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with nursing?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as nursing from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹsɪŋ/):
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 nursing
- more nursing comparative
- most nursing superlative
- nursings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does nursing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
In the state of suckling young, lactating.
The nursing bear wouldn't move far until her cubs were older.
- 2
Referring to nurses.
The nursing staff worked overtime at the hospital.
noun
- 1
Suckling, such as breastfeeding.
- 2
The process or profession of caring for patients as a nurse.
She went into nursing as a career.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of nurse
The mother sat there nursing her baby.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Nursing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense caring for patients:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | enfermagem |
| Spanish | enfermería |
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.