seeing
/ˈsiː.ɪŋ/adjective, noun, conjunction, verb
seeing is spelled S-E-E-I-N-G: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 110 times per million words in written English, the 972nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, seeing means “Having vision; not blind” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in seeing?
| Letters | 6: S-E-E-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 110 times per million words; the 972nd 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 seeing?
Seeing appears 110 times per million words in written English, the 972nd 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 seeing?
- /ˈsiː.ɪŋ/
Seeing 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: En-us-seeing.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with seeing?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as seeing.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: signee.
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 seeing
- seeings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does seeing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having vision; not blind.
noun
- 1
The act or fact of perceiving something with the eyes; eyesight.
- 2
The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.
conjunction
- 1
slangInasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of see
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Seeing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 seeing come from?
From see + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).