falling

Other forms of falling

comparative

fallinger·

superlative

fallingest·

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 falling

What does falling mean?

falling means "decreasing in amount or degree". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in falling?

falling has 2 syllables: fal-ling. The stress falls on "fal". In IPA it is /ˈfɑlɪŋ/.

What is another word for falling?

Close synonyms include dropping. 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.

What is the opposite of falling?

The recorded antonyms are rising.

Is falling a common word?

falling 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.