quitting
noun, verb
quitting is spelled Q-U-I-T-T-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is quiting: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Quitting is a noun meaning “The deliberate ending of something”. The plural of quitting is quittings.
How many letters and syllables are in quitting?
| Letters | 8: Q-U-I-T-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.0 times per million words; the 11,198th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, quiting, about 100 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 quitting?
Quitting is spelled Q-U-I-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 quitting 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 quitting?
Quitting appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th 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 quitting?
- US
Quitting 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-us-quitting.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of quitting
- quittings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does quitting mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The deliberate ending of something.
- 2
The ceasing of a habit, especially smoking cigarettes or other addictive behaviors.
- 3
The termination of employment, initiated by the employee.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of quit
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Quitting in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the termination of employment, initiated by the employee:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | dimisión |
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.