stealing
/ˈstiːlɪŋ/noun, verb
stealing is spelled S-T-E-A-L-I-N-G: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,838th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stealing means “The action of the verb to steal, theft” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stealing is stealings.
How many letters and syllables are in stealing?
| Letters | 8: S-T-E-A-L-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 17 times per million words; the 4,838th 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 and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 stealing?
Stealing appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,838th 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 stealing?
- /ˈstiːlɪŋ/
Stealing 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-stealing.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with stealing?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as stealing.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: genitals.
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 stealing
- stealings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stealing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The action of the verb to steal, theft.
- 2
archaicThat which is stolen; stolen property.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of steal
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).