freeing

Other forms of freeing

plural

freeings·

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 freeing

What does freeing mean?

freeing means "the act of liberating someone or something".

How many syllables are in freeing?

freeing has 2 syllables: fre-eing. The stress falls on "fre". In IPA it is /ˈfɹiɪŋ/.

What is another word for freeing?

Close synonyms include liberation, release. 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 freeing a common word?

freeing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.