wearing
/ˈwɛəɹɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb
wearing is spelled W-E-A-R-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 71 times per million words in written English, the 1,486th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, wearing means “Intended to be worn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in wearing?
| Letters | 7: W-E-A-R-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 71 times per million words; the 1,486th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is wearing?
Wearing appears 71 times per million words in written English, the 1,486th 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 wearing?
- UK /ˈwɛəɹɪŋ/
- British /ˈwɛːɹɪŋ/
- /ˈwɛːɹɪŋɡ/
Wearing 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-wearing.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with wearing?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as wearing from its last stressed vowel (/ɛəɹɪŋ/, British pronunciation):
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 wearing
- more wearing comparative
- most wearing superlative
- wearings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does wearing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Intended to be worn.
Clothes used to be called wearing apparel.
- 2
Causing tiredness; trying to a person's patience.
- 3
Causing erosion.
- 4
That wears (deteriorate through use), and may eventually wear out.
noun
- 1
The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
- 2
The act by which something is worn.
formal crown-wearings
- 3
That which is worn; clothes; garments.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of wear
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Wearing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense intended to be worn:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Tragen |
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.