putting
put·ting[ˈpʰʊɾɪŋ]noun, verb
putting is spelled P-U-T-T-I-N-G, 2 syllables: put·ting. The wrong spelling people search most is puting: about 290 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Putting is a noun meaning “The action or result of the verb put”. The plural of putting is puttings.
How many letters and syllables are in putting?
| Letters | 7: P-U-T-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: put·ting |
| In writing | 72 times per million words; the 1,457th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, puting, about 290 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 putting?
Putting is spelled P-U-T-T-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for putting 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 putting?
Putting appears 72 times per million words in written English, the 1,457th 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 putting?
- /ˈpʊtɪŋ/
- [ˈpʰʊtɪŋ]
- US [ˈpʰʊɾɪŋ]
As a noun (“The action of the verb to putt”): /ˈpʌtɪŋ/, [ˈpʰʌtɪŋ].
Putting has 2 syllables, split put·ting in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-putting.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-putting_(golf).wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of putting
- puttings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does putting mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
obsoleteInstigation or incitement; enticement.
- 2
The action or result of the verb put.
- 3
The action of the verb to putt.
- 4
A variety of golf in which balls are tapped into holes over short distances using a putter.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of put
- 2
present participle and gerund of putt
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does putting come from?
From put + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).