placing

/ˈpleɪsɪŋ/noun, verb

placing is spelled P-L-A-C-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,407th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, placing means “The action by which something is placed; placement; positioning” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of placing is placings.

How many letters and syllables are in placing?

Letters	7: P-L-A-C-I-N-G
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	15 times per million words; the 5,407th 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 placing?

Placing appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,407th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce placing?

/ˈpleɪsɪŋ/

Placing 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-placing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of placing

placings plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does placing mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
The action by which something is placed; placement; positioning.
2
The condition of being placed.
3
The position of a competitor at the end of a race.

verb

1
present participle and gerund of place (a form of place)