Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thieving

/ˈθiːvɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.73 in modern English

Syllables: thiev-ing
IPA: /ˈθiːvɪŋ/

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of thieve

adj

That thieves; that steals; inclined to steal

noun

The action of theft.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"From her point of view, sex itself, or sexual awareness, is the thief that stole away her innocence (which completes the picture of Thomas's totally thieving world)."
"The landlady was "a desperately mean old specimen... who employed a very thieving set of servants,""
""There's nothing to spend your thievings on up here.""

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

thievings (plural)

Derived Forms

thievingly

Synonyms

thievish larceny theft thievery stealing

Rhymes With

leaving receiving believing achieving weaving grieving relieving deceiving self-deceiving retrieving heaving perceiving

Questions

How do you pronounce thieving?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈθiːvɪŋ/.
What does thieving mean?: present participle and gerund of thieve

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