recurring
/ɹɪˈkɝɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb
recurring is spelled R-E-C-U-R-R-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is reccuring: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 53 of all searches for the word. Recurring is an adjective meaning “Happening or occurring frequently, with repetition”.
How many letters and syllables are in recurring?
| Letters | 9: R-E-C-U-R-R-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.1 times per million words; the 11,015th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, reccuring, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell recurring?
Recurring is spelled R-E-C-U-R-R-I-N-G. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 45 of the searches for recurring 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 recurring?
Recurring appears 5.1 times per million words in written English, the 11,015th 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 recurring?
- UK /ɹɪˈkɜːɹɪŋ/
- US /ɹɪˈkɝɪŋ/
Recurring has 3 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-recurring.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with recurring?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as recurring from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹɪŋ/):
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 recurring
- more recurring comparative
- most recurring superlative
- recurrings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does recurring mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Happening or occurring frequently, with repetition.
He has recurring asthma attacks.
- 2
Of a decimal: having a set of digits that is repeated indefinitely.
Every rational number can be written as either a terminating decimal or a recurring decimal.
noun
- 1
A recurrence; a coming round again.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of recur
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Recurring in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | (immer, periodisch) wiederkehrend |
| Portuguese | recorrente , periódico |
| Spanish | recurrente , periódico |
| French | périodique |
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.