Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

behaving

/bɪhˈeɪvɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English

Syllables: be-hav-ing
IPA: /bɪhˈeɪvɪŋ/

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of behave

noun

Example Sentences

"After that, he watched the semichivalrous behavings of the three English with quiet amusement; he thought Fielding had been incredibly silly and weak, and he was amazed by the younger people's want of proper pride."
"For any such thing can play the role in an individual life which philosophers have thought could, or at least should, be played only by things which were universal, common to us all. It can symbolise the blind impress all our behavings bear."

Inflected Forms

behavings (plural)

Derived Forms

unbehaving

Rhymes With

saving waving shaving craving paving engraving raving caving waiving misbehaving braving staving

Questions

How do you pronounce behaving?: The recorded pronunciation is /bɪhˈeɪvɪŋ/.
What does behaving mean?: present participle and gerund of behave

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