Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

waking

/ˈweɪkɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English

Syllables: wak-ing
IPA: /ˈweɪkɪŋ/

14

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Occurring during wakefulness.

verb

present participle and gerund of wake

noun

The act of becoming awake from sleep, or a period of time spent awake.

Example Sentences

"A waking nightmare"
"The city had as yet hardly drawn its first waking breath."
"Counting occupied my every waking thought."
"It is this gift of life that we are grateful to receive each waking moment, and so we give thanks, “for our lives, which are committed to Your power.”"
"[…] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings."

Inflected Forms

more waking (comparative) most waking (superlative) wakings (plural)

Derived Forms

semiwaking subwaking unwaking wakingly sleepwaking

Phrases

half-waking waking dream waking life

Synonyms

wakeful

Rhymes With

making taking breaking shaking baking faking braking aching mistaking raking staking remaking

Questions

How do you pronounce waking?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈweɪkɪŋ/.
What does waking mean?: Occurring during wakefulness.

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