posting
/ˈpoʊstɪŋ/noun, verb
posting is spelled P-O-S-T-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,683rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, posting means “The action of the verb to post” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of posting is postings.
How many letters and syllables are in posting?
| Letters | 7: P-O-S-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 25 times per million words; the 3,683rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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 posting?
Posting appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,683rd 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 posting?
- UK /ˈpəʊstɪŋ/
- US /ˈpoʊstɪŋ/
Posting 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-posting.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with posting?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as posting from its last stressed vowel (/oʊstɪŋ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: stoping.
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 posting
- postings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does posting mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The action of the verb to post.
- 2
An item inserted into a register, ledger or diary.
- 3
the process of transferring financial transaction data from a journal (chronological record) to the general ledger (account-wise record.
- 4
A message posted to a computerized bulletin board, a newsgroup, a blog, etc.
- 5
UKThe place where a soldier or airman is posted for duty; the time spent there.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of post
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of POST
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).