ordering
noun, verb
ordering is spelled O-R-D-E-R-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is ording: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 24 of all searches for the word. Ordering is a noun meaning “Arrangement in a sequence”. The plural of ordering is orderings.
How many letters and syllables are in ordering?
| Letters | 8: O-R-D-E-R-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 6,884th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, ording, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell ordering?
Ordering is spelled O-R-D-E-R-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for ordering 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 ordering?
Ordering appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 6,884th 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 ordering?
Ordering 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).
Forms of ordering
- orderings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ordering mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Arrangement in a sequence.
She gave the students' performances a rank ordering.
- 2
The placement of an order for goods or services.
Ordering has to be complete at least six weeks before expected delivery to get our best prices.
- 3
The act or ceremony of ordaining, as priests or deacons.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of order
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Ordering in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | ordenación, ordenamiento |
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.