receiving
re·ceiv·ing/ɹɪˈsiːvɪŋ/noun, verb
receiving is spelled R-E-C-E-I-V-I-N-G, 3 syllables: re·ceiv·ing. The wrong spelling people search most is recieving: about 1,670 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Receiving is a noun meaning “The act by which something is received; reception”. The plural of receiving is receivings.
How many letters and syllables are in receiving?
| Letters | 9: R-E-C-E-I-V-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: re·ceiv·ing |
| In writing | 39 times per million words; the 2,523rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, recieving, about 1,670 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 receiving?
Receiving is spelled R-E-C-E-I-V-I-N-G. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for receiving 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 receiving?
Receiving appears 39 times per million words in written English, the 2,523rd 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 receiving?
- /ɹɪˈsiːvɪŋ/
Receiving has 3 syllables, split re·ceiv·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-receiving.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of receiving
- receivings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does receiving mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act by which something is received; reception.
Those that are received graciously may, and must, render the calves of their lips – poor returns for rich receivings, yet, if sincere, more acceptable than the calves of the stall.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of receive
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).