sobbing

sob·bing/ˈsɑbɪŋ/noun, adjective, verb

sobbing is spelled S-O-B-B-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables (sob·bing). It appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,613th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sobbing means “Act of one who sobs; a crying or weeping” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sobbing is sobbings.

How many letters and syllables are in sobbing?

Letters	7: S-O-B-B-I-N-G
Syllables	2: sob·bing
In writing	3.0 times per million words; the 15,613th 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 sobbing?

Sobbing appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,613th 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 sobbing?

UK /ˈsɒbɪŋ/
US /ˈsɑbɪŋ/

Sobbing has 2 syllables, split sob·bing in writing.

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

Forms of sobbing

sobbings plural

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

What does sobbing mean?

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

noun

1
Act of one who sobs; a crying or weeping.

adjective

1
That or who sobs.
a sobbing child

verb

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