polluting
adjective, verb
polluting is spelled P-O-L-L-U-T-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is poluting: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Polluting is an adjective meaning “Causing pollution; having a tendency to pollute”.
How many letters and syllables are in polluting?
| Letters | 9: P-O-L-L-U-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.2 times per million words; the 26,420th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, poluting, about 10 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 polluting?
Polluting is spelled P-O-L-L-U-T-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for polluting 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 polluting?
Polluting appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,420th 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 polluting?
Polluting 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 polluting
- more polluting comparative
- most polluting superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does polluting mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Causing pollution; having a tendency to pollute.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of pollute
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Polluting in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense tending to pollute; causing pollution:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | polluant |
| Spanish | contaminante |
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.