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sping

noun

sping is spelled S-P-I-N-G: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sping means “The use of blogs' trackback functionality to generate link spam” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sping is spings.

How many letters and syllables are in sping?

Letters5: S-P-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 63 million words; the 249,463rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 sping?

Sping appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd 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).

Forms of sping

  • spings plural

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

What does sping mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The use of blogs' trackback functionality to generate link spam.

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

Where does sping come from?

Blend of spam + ping.

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

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