upcoming
adjective, noun, verb
upcoming is spelled U-P-C-O-M-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is upcomming: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 40 of all searches for the word. Upcoming is an adjective meaning “Happening or appearing in the relatively near future”.
How many letters and syllables are in upcoming?
| Letters | 8: U-P-C-O-M-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 22 times per million words; the 4,015th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, upcomming, about 110 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 upcoming?
Upcoming is spelled U-P-C-O-M-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 40 of the searches for upcoming 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 upcoming?
Upcoming appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 4,015th 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 upcoming?
Upcoming 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).
Forms of upcoming
- upcomings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does upcoming mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Happening or appearing in the relatively near future.
We are ready for whatever is upcoming.
- 2
Eggcorn of up-and-coming.
noun
- 1
The act of coming up.
- 2
Comeuppance; deserts.
- 3
The activity of to upcome.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of upcome
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Upcoming in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of the relatively near future:
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 upcoming come from?
From up + coming.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).