printings
/ˈpɹɪntɪŋz/
"printings" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“printings” is uncommon English (frequency #71,023 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,023
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of printing
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | printings |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɹɪntɪŋz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,023 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “printings” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
printings is uncommon English at frequency #71,023 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpɹɪntɪŋz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of printing".
printings doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is printings, spelled P-R-I-N-T-I-N-G-S.
Definition
- 1plural of printing
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-R-I-N-T-I-N-G-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈpɹɪntɪŋz/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.