studying
/ˈstʌdiːɪŋ/noun, verb
studying is spelled S-T-U-D-Y-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is studing: about 130 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Studying is a noun meaning “The action of the verb to study”. The plural of studying is studyings.
How many letters and syllables are in studying?
| Letters | 8: S-T-U-D-Y-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 26 times per million words; the 3,479th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, studing, about 130 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 studying?
Studying is spelled S-T-U-D-Y-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for studying 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 studying?
Studying appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,479th 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 studying?
- /ˈstʌdiːɪŋ/
Studying has 3 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)-Sapaa-studying.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of studying
- studyings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does studying mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The action of the verb to study.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of study
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Studying in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the action of the verb to study:
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.