happening

Other forms of happening

plural

happenings·

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 happening

What does happening mean?

happening means "an event that happens".

How many syllables are in happening?

happening has 3 syllables: hap-pe-ning. The stress falls on "hap". In IPA it is /ˈhæpənɪŋ/.

What is another word for happening?

Close synonyms include occurrence, occurrent, natural event. 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 happening a common word?

happening is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.