fermenting

Other forms of fermenting

plural

fermentings·

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 fermenting

What does fermenting mean?

fermenting means "a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol".

How many syllables are in fermenting?

fermenting has 3 syllables: fer-men-ting. The stress falls on "men". In IPA it is /fɚˈmɛntɪŋ/.

What is another word for fermenting?

Close synonyms include zymosis, zymolysis, fermentation, ferment. 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 fermenting a common word?

fermenting 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.

What rhymes with fermenting?

1 word rhymes with fermenting. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.