trespassing
noun, verb
trespassing is a noun meaning “unauthorized entry to private property” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-E-S-P-A-S-S-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears 1.4 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of trespassing is trespassings.
What does trespassing mean?
noun
- 1
unauthorized entry to private property
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of trespass
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce trespassing?
Trespassing 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)-Vealhurl-trespassing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of trespassing
- trespassings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is trespassing?
Trespassing appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th 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).
Trespassing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense unauthorized entry on private property:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | translimitación, entrada sin autorización, entramiento no autorizado, traspasamiento, traspasación |
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.