Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

competing

/kəmˈpiːtɪŋ/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.22 in modern English

Syllables
com-pet-ing
IPA
/kəmˈpiːtɪŋ/
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Being in the state of competition (often unintentionally).

verb

present participle and gerund of compete

Inflected Forms

more competing (comparative) most competing (superlative)

Derived Forms

competingly noncompeting

Rhymes With

meeting eating beating treating cheating heating completing repeating seating greeting defeating deleting

Questions

How do you pronounce competing?
The recorded pronunciation is /kəmˈpiːtɪŋ/.
What does competing mean?
Being in the state of competition (often unintentionally).

How to pronounce competing

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