Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

raping

/ɹˈeɪpɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English

Syllables: rap-ing
IPA: /ɹˈeɪpɪŋ/

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of rape

noun

Rape (sexual violation).

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Misspelling of rapping.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Even girls of tender years and old women were raped in large numbers throughout the city, and many cases of abnormal and sadistic behavior in connection with these rapings occurred."
"In the 1967 attacks Witnesses reported the rapings of more than one thousand of their women, one mother being sexually violated by six different men, her thirteen-year-old daughter by three men."

Usage

Inflected Forms

rapings (plural)

Rhymes With

escaping shaping scraping taping gaping reshaping draping aping

Questions

How do you pronounce raping?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɹˈeɪpɪŋ/.
What does raping mean?: present participle and gerund of rape

How to pronounce raping

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