panicking
noun, verb
panicking is spelled P-A-N-I-C-K-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is panicing: about 210 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Panicking is a noun meaning “A state of panic”. The plural of panicking is panickings.
How many letters and syllables are in panicking?
| Letters | 9: P-A-N-I-C-K-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,798th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, panicing, about 210 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 panicking?
Panicking is spelled P-A-N-I-C-K-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for panicking 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 panicking?
Panicking appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th 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 panicking?
Panicking 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 panicking
- panickings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does panicking mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A state of panic.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of panic
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).