purchasing
noun, verb
purchasing is spelled P-U-R-C-H-A-S-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is puchasing: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 109 of all searches for the word. Purchasing is a noun meaning “An act or process of making a purchase”. The plural of purchasing is purchasings.
How many letters and syllables are in purchasing?
| Letters | 10: P-U-R-C-H-A-S-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,456th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, puchasing, 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 purchasing?
Purchasing is spelled P-U-R-C-H-A-S-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 109 of the searches for purchasing 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 purchasing?
Purchasing appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,456th 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 purchasing?
Purchasing has 3 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 purchasing
- purchasings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does purchasing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An act or process of making a purchase.
- 2
A complex, organized process in large organizations for obtaining goods that may include identification of requirements, approvals, supplier management, negotiation, receipt of goods, and payment.
- 3
A part of an organization that manages such processes
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of purchase
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Purchasing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an act or process of making a purchase:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | achat |
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.