alerting

Other forms of alerting

plural

alertings·

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 alerting

What does alerting mean?

alerting means "a state of readiness to respond". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alerting?

alerting has 3 syllables: a-ler-ting. The stress falls on "ler". In IPA it is /əˈlɝtɪŋ/.

What is another word for alerting?

Close synonyms include alertness, alert. 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 alerting a common word?

alerting is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.