remaining
/ɹɪˈmeɪnɪŋ/noun, adjective, verb
remaining is spelled R-E-M-A-I-N-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is remaing: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 48 of all searches for the word. Remaining is a noun meaning “remnant”. The plural of remaining is remainings.
How many letters and syllables are in remaining?
| Letters | 9: R-E-M-A-I-N-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 43 times per million words; the 2,339th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, remaing, about 40 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 remaining?
Remaining is spelled R-E-M-A-I-N-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 48 of the searches for remaining 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 remaining?
Remaining appears 43 times per million words in written English, the 2,339th 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 remaining?
- /ɹɪˈmeɪnɪŋ/
Remaining 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-remaining.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of remaining
- remainings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does remaining mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
obsoleteAn act or occurrence by which someone or something remains
- 2
rareremnant.
adjective
- 1
Which remains, especially after something else has been removed.
May I have the only remaining cake?
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of remain
They will be remaining behind. (progressive)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Remaining in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense which remains:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | qui reste, restant |
| German | verbleibend, restlich |
| Spanish | restante, remanente, permaneciente, quedante |
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 remaining come from?
By surface analysis, remain + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).