seating
/ˈsiːtɪŋ/noun, verb
seating is spelled S-E-A-T-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, seating means “The act of one that seats” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of seating is seatings.
How many letters and syllables are in seating?
| Letters | 7: S-E-A-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.9 times per million words; the 10,028th 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 seating?
Seating appears 5.9 times per million words in written English, the 10,028th 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 seating?
- /ˈsiːtɪŋ/
Seating 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-seating.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with seating?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as seating.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: teasing, easting, genista.
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 seating
- seatings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does seating mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of one that seats.
The seating of passengers will begin soon.
- 2
The provision of chairs or other places for people to sit.
There is plenty of comfortable seating.
- 3
A period of time in which people are allowed into a performance, a meal, etc., to be seated.
The first seating begins at 5 o'clock.
- 4
Material for making seats.
cane seating
- 5
obsoleteHaircloth.
- 6
Collectively, the various fitted supports of the parts of a structure or of a machine; a housing in which a component is seated.
- 7
That part of the floor which rests on the keel.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of seat
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Seating in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense provision of chairs:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Bestuhlung, Gestühl, Sitzgelegenheiten |
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.