wiretapping
noun, verb
wiretapping is a noun meaning “The installation or monitoring of wiretaps” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-I-R-E-T-A-P-P-I-N-G and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of wiretapping is wiretappings.
What does wiretapping mean?
noun
- 1
The installation or monitoring of wiretaps.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of wiretap
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce wiretapping?
Wiretapping 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).
Forms of wiretapping
- wiretappings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is wiretapping?
Wiretapping appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,660th 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).