sampling
/ˈsæmpəlɪŋ/noun, verb
sampling is spelled S-A-M-P-L-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is samling: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 55 of all searches for the word. Sampling is a noun meaning “The process or technique of obtaining a representative sample”. The plural of sampling is samplings.
How many letters and syllables are in sampling?
| Letters | 8: S-A-M-P-L-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.6 times per million words; the 10,358th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, samling, about 10 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 sampling?
Sampling is spelled S-A-M-P-L-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 55 of the searches for sampling 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 sampling?
Sampling appears 5.6 times per million words in written English, the 10,358th 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 sampling?
- US /ˈsæmpəlɪŋ/
- UK /ˈsɑːmpəlɪŋ/
Sampling 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sampling.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of sampling
- samplings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sampling mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The process or technique of obtaining a representative sample.
- 2
A sample.
- 3
The analysis of a group by determining the characteristics of a significant percentage of its members chosen at random.
- 4
The measurement, at regular intervals, of the amplitude of a varying waveform in order to convert it to digital form.
- 5
The electronic splicing of pieces of previously recorded sound as part of a composition, especially as part of hip-hop or electronic dance music.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of sample
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sampling in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | échantillonnage, prélèvement , échantillon |
| Portuguese | amostragem |
| Spanish | muestreo |
| German | Abtastung |
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.