training
train·ing/ˈtɹeɪnɪŋ/noun, verb
training is spelled T-R-A-I-N-I-N-G, 2 syllables: train·ing. The wrong spelling people search most is traning: about 370 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 101 of all searches for the word. Training is a noun meaning “Action of the verb to train”. The plural of training is trainings.
How many letters and syllables are in training?
| Letters | 8: T-R-A-I-N-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: train·ing |
| In writing | 151 times per million words; the 679th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, traning, about 370 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 training?
Training is spelled T-R-A-I-N-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 101 of the searches for training 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 training?
Training appears 151 times per million words in written English, the 679th 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 training?
- /ˈtɹeɪnɪŋ/
Training has 2 syllables, split train·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-training.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of training
- trainings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does training mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Action of the verb to train.
- 2
The activity of imparting and acquiring skills.
- 3
The result of good social upbringing.
- 4
The process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.
- 5
The recording of multiple samples of a user's voice to aid pattern recognition.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of train
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate training?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of training: tng.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Training in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the activity of imparting and acquiring skills:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | entrainement, entraînement |
| German | Ausbildung, Training |
| Portuguese | treinamento |
| Spanish | capacitación, entrenamiento, formación, prácticas, adiestramiento |
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.