yielding
/ˈjiːldɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb
yielding is spelled Y-I-E-L-D-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is yeilding: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Yielding is an adjective meaning “Docile, or inclined to give way to pressure”.
How many letters and syllables are in yielding?
| Letters | 8: Y-I-E-L-D-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.5 times per million words; the 17,122nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, yeilding, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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).
How do you spell yielding?
Yielding is spelled Y-I-E-L-D-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for yielding 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.
How common is yielding?
Yielding appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,122nd 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 yielding?
- /ˈjiːldɪŋ/
Yielding 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-yielding.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of yielding
- more yielding comparative
- most yielding superlative
- yieldings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does yielding mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Docile, or inclined to give way to pressure.
noun
- 1
A concession.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of yield
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Yielding in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | docile , concession |
| German | ergiebig |
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 yielding come from?
From Middle English ȝeldinge, ȝeldynge, ȝeldinde, ȝeldand, from Old English ġyldende, ġieldende, present participle of ġieldan (“to yield, pay”), equivalent to yield + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).