smuggling
noun, verb
smuggling is spelled S-M-U-G-G-L-I-N-G: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, smuggling means “An act of something being smuggled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of smuggling is smugglings.
How many letters and syllables are in smuggling?
| Letters | 9: S-M-U-G-G-L-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.5 times per million words; the 14,106th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is smuggling?
Smuggling appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th 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 smuggling?
Smuggling 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-smuggling.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of smuggling
- smugglings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does smuggling mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An act of something being smuggled.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of smuggle
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Smuggling in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an act of something being smuggled:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | trafique |
| German | Schmuggel |
| Portuguese | contrabando |
| Spanish | contrabando, matute, chancuco, falluca, fayuca, estraperlo |
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.