setting

set·ting/ˈsɛtɪŋ/noun, adjective, verb

setting is spelled S-E-T-T-I-N-G, 2 syllables: set·ting. The wrong spelling people search most is seting: about 330 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 86 of all searches for the word. Setting is a noun meaning “The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario”. The plural of setting is settings.

How many letters and syllables are in setting?

Letters	7: S-E-T-T-I-N-G
Syllables	2: set·ting
In writing	59 times per million words; the 1,758th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	1; the most searched, seting, about 330 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Same letters	testing

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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell setting?

Setting is spelled S-E-T-T-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 86 of the searches for setting in either form.

settingthe right spelling28,090 searches a month

setinga missing t330 searches a month

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 setting?

Setting appears 59 times per million words in written English, the 1,758th most frequent word form in the list.

setting0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

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

How do you pronounce setting?

/ˈsɛtɪŋ/

Setting has 2 syllables, split set·ting in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-setting.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with setting?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as setting.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: testing.

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 setting

settings plural

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

What does setting mean?

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

noun

1
The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
2
The act of setting (various senses).
the setting of the sun
3
A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
4
A level or placement to which a knob or control is set.
the volume setting on a television
5
The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
6
Hunting with a setter.
7
Something set in, or inserted.
8
A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
Schubert's setting of Goethe's poem

adjective

1
That disappears below the horizon.
the setting sun

verb

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