welding
/ˈwɛldɪŋ/noun, verb
welding is spelled W-E-L-D-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, welding means “The joining two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of welding is weldings.
How many letters and syllables are in welding?
| Letters | 7: W-E-L-D-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.5 times per million words; the 14,106th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is welding?
Welding appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th 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 welding?
- /ˈwɛldɪŋ/
Welding 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-welding.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of welding
- weldings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does welding mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The joining two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination.
- 2
Binding together inseparably; uniting closely or intimately.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of weld
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Welding in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the action or process of welding: joining two materials (especially two metals) :
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 welding come from?
By surface analysis, weld + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).