piping
/ˈpaɪpɪŋ/noun, adjective, verb
piping is spelled P-I-P-I-N-G: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, piping means “The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of piping is pipings.
How many letters and syllables are in piping?
| Letters | 6: P-I-P-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.6 times per million words; the 16,687th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is piping?
Piping appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th 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 piping?
- /ˈpaɪpɪŋ/
Piping 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)-Persent101-piping.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of piping
- pipings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does piping mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
- 2
The sound of musical pipes.
- 3
An act of making music or noise with pipes.
- 4
A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
the piping of a house
- 5
An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
- 6
Icing extruded from a piping bag.
- 7
A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
- 8
propagation by cuttings
adjective
- 1
High-pitched.
His piping voice could be heard above the hubbub.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of pipe
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Piping in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense ornamentation on the edges of a garment:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | passepoil |
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.