volunteering
noun, verb
volunteering is spelled V-O-L-U-N-T-E-E-R-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is volonteering: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 213 of all searches for the word. Volunteering is a noun meaning “The act of voluntarily giving time and labor for charity or community service”.
How do you spell volunteering?
Volunteering is spelled V-O-L-U-N-T-E-E-R-I-N-G. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 107 of the searches for volunteering 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.
What does volunteering mean?
noun
- 1
The act of voluntarily giving time and labor for charity or community service.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of volunteer
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce volunteering?
Volunteering has 4 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).
How common is volunteering?
Volunteering appears 3.3 times per million words in written English, the 14,509th 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).
Volunteering in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense act of volunteering:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | volontariat |
| Spanish | voluntariado |
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.