pingpong
noun, verb
pingpong is a noun meaning “Alternative form of ping pong” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-I-N-G-P-O-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pingpong is pingpongs.
What does pingpong mean?
noun
- 1
Alternative form of ping pong.
verb
- 1
Alternative form of ping pong.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pingpong?
- US
Pingpong 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: En-us-ping-pong.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pingpong
- pingpongs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- pingponging participle, present
- pingponged participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pingpong?
Pingpong appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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).
Pingpong in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense ping pong:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | pimpón |
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.