wrapping
/ˈɹæp.ɪŋ/noun, verb
wrapping is a noun meaning “The material in which something is wrapped” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-R-A-P-P-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears 3.8 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of wrapping is wrappings.
What does wrapping mean?
noun
- 1
The material in which something is wrapped.
- 2
The breaking of a section of text into lines so that it will fit into the available width of a display area.
See also: autowrap, backwrap, line break, word wrap, and wraparound
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of wrap
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce wrapping?
- /ˈɹæp.ɪŋ/
Wrapping 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-wrapping.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of wrapping
- wrappings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is wrapping?
Wrapping appears 3.8 times per million words in written English, the 13,321st 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).
Wrapping in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense material in which something is wrapped – see also packaging:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | enveloppe, emballage |
| Spanish | embalaje, envoltorio |
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 wrapping come from?
From Middle English wrappinge, wrappynge, equivalent to wrap + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).