occurring
oc·cur·ring/əˈkɝɪŋ/noun, adjective, verb
occurring is spelled O-C-C-U-R-R-I-N-G, 3 syllables: oc·cur·ring. The wrong spelling people search most is occuring: about 0 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026). Occurring is a noun meaning “An instance of something occurring; an event or happening”. The plural of occurring is occurrings.
How many letters and syllables are in occurring?
| Letters | 9: O-C-C-U-R-R-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: oc·cur·ring |
| In writing | 9.3 times per million words; the 7,445th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, occuring (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 occurring?
Occurring is spelled O-C-C-U-R-R-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure.
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 occurring?
Occurring appears 9.3 times per million words in written English, the 7,445th 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 occurring?
- US /əˈkɝɪŋ/
- UK /əˈkɜːɹɪŋ/
Occurring has 3 syllables, split oc·cur·ring in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-occurring.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with occurring?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as occurring from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹɪŋ/):
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 occurring
- occurrings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does occurring mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An instance of something occurring; an event or happening.
adjective
- 1
That occurs in a specified manner.
naturally occurring macromolecules
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of occur
- 2
present participle and gerund of occurre (obsolete form of occur)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).