forsaking

Other forms of forsaking

plural

forsakings·

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 forsaking

What does forsaking mean?

forsaking means "the act of forsaking". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in forsaking?

forsaking has 3 syllables: for-sa-king. The stress falls on "sa". In IPA it is /fɔɹˈseɪkɪŋ/.

What is another word for forsaking?

Close synonyms include giving up, abandonment, desertion. 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 forsaking a common word?

forsaking 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.