proselytizing
noun, verb
proselytizing is spelled P-R-O-S-E-L-Y-T-I-Z-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is proseletyzing: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 108 of all searches for the word. Proselytizing is a noun meaning “proselytism”. The plural of proselytizing is proselytizings.
How many letters and syllables are in proselytizing?
| Letters | 13: P-R-O-S-E-L-Y-T-I-Z-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 54,808th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, proseletyzing, about 20 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 proselytizing?
Proselytizing is spelled P-R-O-S-E-L-Y-T-I-Z-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 107 of the searches for proselytizing 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 proselytizing?
Proselytizing appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 54,808th 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 proselytizing?
Proselytizing has 5 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 proselytizing
- proselytizings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does proselytizing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
proselytism
[…] a radical alteration in the very conception of female sexuality, an alteration that began with the proselytizings of Free Love advocates like Victoria Woodhull and Emma Goldman […]
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of proselytize
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).