spinning
/ˈspɪnɪŋ/noun, verb
spinning is spelled S-P-I-N-N-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is spining: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Spinning is a noun meaning “The motion of something that spins”. The plural of spinning is spinnings.
How many letters and syllables are in spinning?
| Letters | 8: S-P-I-N-N-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 9.5 times per million words; the 7,338th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, spining, about 90 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 spinning?
Spinning is spelled S-P-I-N-N-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for spinning 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 spinning?
Spinning appears 9.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,338th 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 spinning?
- /ˈspɪnɪŋ/
Spinning 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-us-spinning.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of spinning
- spinnings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does spinning mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The motion of something that spins.
- 2
The process of converting fibres into yarn or thread.
- 3
Indoor cycling on an exercise bicycle.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of spin
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Spinning in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense process of converting fibres into yarn or thread:
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.