staying
stay·ing/ˈsteɪ.ɪŋ/noun, verb
staying is spelled S-T-A-Y-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables (stay·ing). It appears 35 times per million words in written English, the 2,725th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, staying means “A stay or visit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of staying is stayings.
How many letters and syllables are in staying?
| Letters | 7: S-T-A-Y-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: stay·ing |
| In writing | 35 times per million words; the 2,725th 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; 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 staying?
Staying appears 35 times per million words in written English, the 2,725th 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 staying?
- /ˈsteɪ.ɪŋ/
Staying has 2 syllables, split stay·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-staying.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with staying?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as staying.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: stygian.
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 staying
- stayings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does staying mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A stay or visit.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of stay
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).