feigning

Other forms of feigning

plural

feignings·

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 feigning

What does feigning mean?

feigning means "pretending with intention to deceive". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in feigning?

feigning has 2 syllables: feig-ning. The stress falls on "feig". In IPA it is /ˈfeɪnɪŋ/.

What is another word for feigning?

Close synonyms include pretense, pretence, dissembling, pretense, pretence. 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 feigning a common word?

feigning 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.