sourcing
/ˈsɔɹsɪŋ/noun, verb
sourcing is spelled S-O-U-R-C-I-N-G: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sourcing means “The process by which something is sourced, or obtained from another place” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sourcing is sourcings.
How many letters and syllables are in sourcing?
| Letters | 8: S-O-U-R-C-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.9 times per million words; the 20,356th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is sourcing?
Sourcing appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th 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 sourcing?
- /ˈsɔɹsɪŋ/
Sourcing 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: En-ca-sourcing.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sourcing?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sourcing.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: scouring, coursing.
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 sourcing
- sourcings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sourcing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The process by which something is sourced, or obtained from another place.
- 2
USThe supply of resources needed by a business process.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of source
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).