posing
/ˈpoʊzɪŋ/noun, verb
posing is spelled P-O-S-I-N-G: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 5.1 times per million words in written English, the 11,015th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, posing means “The act by which something is posed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of posing is posings.
How many letters and syllables are in posing?
| Letters | 6: P-O-S-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.1 times per million words; the 11,015th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is posing?
Posing appears 5.1 times per million words in written English, the 11,015th 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 posing?
- UK /ˈpəʊzɪŋ/
- US /ˈpoʊzɪŋ/
Posing 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-posing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with posing?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as posing from its last stressed vowel (/oʊzɪŋ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of posing
- posings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does posing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act by which something is posed.
different posings of what was essentially the same question
- 2
The act of one who poses or postures.
- 3
informalThe act of portraying oneself artificially, usually to make oneself appear grander or to fit in with the crowd; pretense
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of pose
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).