skiing
/ˈski.ɪŋ/noun, verb
skiing is spelled S-K-I-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is skiiing: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 53 of all searches for the word. Skiing is a noun meaning “A group of sports using skis as primary equipment”.
How many letters and syllables are in skiing?
| Letters | 6: S-K-I-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.9 times per million words; the 9,045th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, skiiing, about 120 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 skiing?
Skiing is spelled S-K-I-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 53 of the searches for skiing 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 skiing?
Skiing appears 6.9 times per million words in written English, the 9,045th 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 skiing?
- /ˈski.ɪŋ/
Skiing 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-skiing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of skiing
- skiïng rare
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does skiing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A group of sports using skis as primary equipment.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of ski
verb
- 1
rareRare spelling of skiing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Skiing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sport or activity:
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 skiing come from?
From ski + -ïng.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).