racing
/ˈɹeɪsɪŋ/noun, verb
racing is spelled R-A-C-I-N-G: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,992nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, racing means “The sport of competing in races” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of racing is racings.
How many letters and syllables are in racing?
| Letters | 6: R-A-C-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 32 times per million words; the 2,992nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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 racing?
Racing appears 32 times per million words in written English, the 2,992nd 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 racing?
- /ˈɹeɪsɪŋ/
Racing 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-racing.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with racing?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as racing.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: caring, arcing.
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 racing
- racings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does racing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The sport of competing in races.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of race
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Racing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the sport of competing in races:
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 racing come from?
By surface analysis, race + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).