foretelling

Other forms of foretelling

plural

foretellings·

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 foretelling

What does foretelling mean?

foretelling means "a statement made about the future". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foretelling?

foretelling has 3 syllables: fore-tel-ling. The stress falls on "tel". In IPA it is /fɔɹˈtɛlɪŋ/.

What is another word for foretelling?

Close synonyms include prediction, forecasting, prognostication, divination, soothsaying. 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 foretelling a common word?

foretelling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. 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 foretelling?

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