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pudding

/ˈpʊdɪŋ/noun

pudding is spelled P-U-D-D-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 4.1 times per million words in written English, the 12,764th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pudding means “Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pudding is puddings.

How many letters and syllables are in pudding?

Letters7: P-U-D-D-I-N-G
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing4.1 times per million words; the 12,764th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is pudding?

Pudding appears 4.1 times per million words in written English, the 12,764th 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 pudding?

  • US /ˈpʊdɪŋ/
  • British /ˈpɵdɪŋ/
  • /ˈpʊdɪŋɡ/

Pudding 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: En-au-pudding.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of pudding

  • puddings plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does pudding mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter.

  2. 2

    A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming.

  3. 3

    A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent.

  4. 4

    AustraliaUKDessert; the dessert course of a meal.

    We have apple pie for pudding today.

  5. 5

    A sausage made primarily from blood.

  6. 6

    slangAn overweight person.

  7. 7

    A term of endearment.

  8. 8

    slangEntrails.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Pudding in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchboudin (sausage made primarily from blood), pudding (boiled or steamed cake or dessert)
GermanBlutwurst (sausage made primarily from blood), Pudding (boiled or steamed cake or dessert)
Portuguesemorcela (sausage made primarily from blood), pudim (boiled or steamed cake or dessert)
Spanishmorcilla (sausage made primarily from blood), pudin, pudín (dessert similar to custard or mousse…)

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.

Where does pudding come from?

From circa 1305, Middle English podynge (“kind of sausage; meat-filled animal stomach”), puddynge, from Old French boudin (“blood sausage, black pudding”), from Latin botellus (“sausage, small intestine”). Doublet of boudin.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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