using
/ˈju.zɪŋ/noun, verb
using is spelled U-S-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is useing: about 140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Using is a noun meaning “use; utilization”. The plural of using is usings.
How many letters and syllables are in using?
| Letters | 5: U-S-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 295 times per million words; the 322nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, useing, about 140 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell using?
Using is spelled U-S-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for using 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 using?
Using appears 295 times per million words in written English, the 322nd 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 using?
- UK /ˈjuː.zɪŋ/
- US /ˈju.zɪŋ/
Using has 2 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: En-us-using.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with using?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as using from its last stressed vowel (/uzɪŋ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: suing.
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 using
- usings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does using mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
use; utilization
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of use
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).