breaking

Other forms of breaking

plural

breakings·

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 breaking

What does breaking mean?

breaking means "the act of breaking something".

How many syllables are in breaking?

breaking has 2 syllables: brea-king. The stress falls on "brea". In IPA it is /ˈbɹeɪkɪŋ/.

What is another word for breaking?

Close synonyms include breakage, break. 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 breaking a common word?

breaking is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 breaking?

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