staging
/ˈsteɪd͡ʒɪŋ/noun, verb
staging is spelled S-T-A-G-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 4.5 times per million words in written English, the 12,045th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, staging means “A performance of a play” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of staging is stagings.
How many letters and syllables are in staging?
| Letters | 7: S-T-A-G-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.5 times per million words; the 12,045th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is staging?
Staging appears 4.5 times per million words in written English, the 12,045th 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 staging?
- /ˈsteɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
Staging 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)-Vealhurl-staging.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of staging
- stagings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does staging mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A performance of a play.
- 2
The act of adapting a literary work into a play or (more loosely) into a film.
- 3
The scenery or organization of the movements of actors onstage or (more loosely) on a film set.
- 4
The arrangement or layout of something in order to create an impression.
- 5
The organization of something in order to prepare for or facilitate working with it.
- 6
A structure of posts and boards for supporting workmen, etc., as in building.
- 7
The act or process of putting on an event.
- 8
The business of running stagecoaches.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of stage
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Staging in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense theater: performance of a play:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | mise en scène, enscènement |
| German | Aufführung, Inszenierung, Regie |
| Portuguese | encenação |
| Spanish | puesta en escena, escenificación |
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.
Where does staging come from?
By surface analysis, stage + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).