writing
/ˈɹaɪtɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.07 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Because writing of any kind is no more and no less than a graphic representation of speech[…], to study its nature and history we must often have recourse to the speech, that is, to the language, that the writing writes."
- "Early writing appeared in both societies around 3000 B.C.E., mainly for administrative purposes in Egypt and for accounting and trading in Sumer."
- "Congrats, you did an interesting piece of writing."
- "I can't read your writing."
- "a writing table"
- "What are you doing? ― Um, I’m writing. ― You are writing! You are writing a lot!"
Etymology
From Middle English writing, writyng, wryting, wrytyng, from Old English wrīting (“writing”), equivalent to write + -ing.