surveying
/sɚˈveɪ.ɪŋ/noun, verb
surveying is spelled S-U-R-V-E-Y-I-N-G: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, surveying means “The applied science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of surveying is surveyings.
How many letters and syllables are in surveying?
| Letters | 9: S-U-R-V-E-Y-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.1 times per million words; the 18,811th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 surveying?
Surveying appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th 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 surveying?
- US /sɚˈveɪ.ɪŋ/
- UK /səˈveɪ.ɪŋ/
Surveying 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)-Persent101-surveying.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with surveying?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as surveying from its last stressed vowel (/eɪɪŋ/):
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 surveying
- surveyings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does surveying mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The applied science of accurately determining the position of points and the distances between them.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of survey
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Surveying in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense science of accurately determining the position of points:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Vermessung |
| Portuguese | agrimensura |
| Spanish | geodesia |
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 surveying come from?
From survey + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).