qing
/t͡ʃɪŋ/noun
qing is spelled Q-I-N-G: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, qing means “A sounding stone, a Chinese musical instrument” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of qing is qings.
How many letters and syllables are in qing?
| Letters | 4: Q-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 24,745th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is qing?
Qing appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th 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 qing?
- US /t͡ʃɪŋ/
Qing has one syllable (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-ching.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with qing
Also written: king.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with qing?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as qing from its last stressed vowel (/ɪŋ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of qing
- qings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does qing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A sounding stone, a Chinese musical instrument.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does qing come from?
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 磬 (qìng), ultimately onomatopoeic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).