splitting
/ˈsplɪtɪŋ/noun, adjective, verb
splitting is spelled S-P-L-I-T-T-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is spliting: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Splitting is a noun meaning “An instance where something splits”. The plural of splitting is splittings.
How many letters and syllables are in splitting?
| Letters | 9: S-P-L-I-T-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.0 times per million words; the 9,878th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, spliting, about 60 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 splitting?
Splitting is spelled S-P-L-I-T-T-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for splitting 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 splitting?
Splitting appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th 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 splitting?
- /ˈsplɪtɪŋ/
Splitting 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)-Flame,_not_lame-splitting.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of splitting
- splittings plural
- more splitting comparative
- most splitting superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does splitting mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An instance where something splits.
- 2
A division in the mind, or affecting one's sense of self.
- 3
The cleavage of a covalent bond.
adjective
- 1
Resembling the sound of something being split or ripped.
- 2
Very rapid.
They moved at a splitting pace.
- 3
Severely painful.
I have a splitting headache.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of split
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).