activating

Other forms of activating

plural

activatings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about activating

What does activating mean?

activating means "the activity of causing to have energy and be active". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in activating?

activating has 4 syllables: ac-ti-va-ting. The stress falls on "ac". In IPA it is /ˈæktəˌveɪtɪŋ/.

What is another word for activating?

Close synonyms include energizing, activation, actuating. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is activating a common word?

activating is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with activating?

3 words rhyme with activating. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.