polling
noun, verb
polling is a noun meaning “The action of taking a poll” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-L-L-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears 6.8 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of polling is pollings.
What does polling mean?
noun
- 1
The action of taking a poll.
- 2
A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral or service to see if it has data to transfer.
- 3
the process of voting in an election.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of poll
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce polling?
Polling 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-polling.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of polling
- pollings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is polling?
Polling appears 6.8 times per million words in written English, the 9,165th 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).