selling

sel·ling/ˈsɛlɪŋ/noun, verb

selling is spelled S-E-L-L-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables (sel·ling). It appears 65 times per million words in written English, the 1,636th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, selling means “Action of the verb to sell” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of selling is sellings.

How many letters and syllables are in selling?

Letters	7: S-E-L-L-I-N-G
Syllables	2: sel·ling
In writing	65 times per million words; the 1,636th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is selling?

Selling appears 65 times per million words in written English, the 1,636th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce selling?

/ˈsɛlɪŋ/

Selling has 2 syllables, split sel·ling in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-selling.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of selling

sellings plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does selling mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
Action of the verb to sell.
buyings and sellings
2
Skill at salesmanship.
You've got to work on your selling.

verb

1
present participle and gerund of sell (a form of sell)