succeeding
suc·ceed·ing/səkˈsiːdɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb
succeeding is spelled S-U-C-C-E-E-D-I-N-G, 3 syllables: suc·ceed·ing. The wrong spelling people search most is suceeding: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Succeeding is an adjective meaning “Following, next in order”.
How many letters and syllables are in succeeding?
| Letters | 10: S-U-C-C-E-E-D-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: suc·ceed·ing |
| In writing | 4.3 times per million words; the 12,397th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, suceeding, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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 succeeding?
Succeeding is spelled S-U-C-C-E-E-D-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 succeeding 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 succeeding?
Succeeding appears 4.3 times per million words in written English, the 12,397th 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 succeeding?
- /səkˈsiːdɪŋ/
Succeeding has 3 syllables, split suc·ceed·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sapaa-succeeding.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of succeeding
- succeedings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does succeeding mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Following, next in order.
noun
- 1
success
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of succeed
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Succeeding in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Following, next in order:
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.