paging
/ˈpeɪd͡ʒɪŋ/noun, verb
paging is spelled P-A-G-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is pageing: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 45 of all searches for the word. Paging is a noun meaning “The arrangement of pages in a book or other publication”. The plural of paging is pagings.
How many letters and syllables are in paging?
| Letters | 6: P-A-G-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 30,789th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, pageing, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); 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 paging?
Paging is spelled P-A-G-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 46 of the searches for paging 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 paging?
Paging appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,789th 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 paging?
- /ˈpeɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
Paging 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)-Vealhurl-paging.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with paging?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as paging.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: gaping.
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 paging
- pagings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does paging mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The arrangement of pages in a book or other publication.
- 2
A transfer of pages between main memory and an auxiliary store, such as hard disk drive.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of page
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).