lapsing

Other forms of lapsing

plural

lapsings·

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 lapsing

What does lapsing mean?

lapsing means "a failure to maintain a higher state".

How many syllables are in lapsing?

lapsing has 2 syllables: lap-sing. The stress falls on "lap". In IPA it is /ˈlæpsɪŋ/.

What is another word for lapsing?

Close synonyms include backsliding, lapse, relapse, relapsing, reversion. 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 lapsing a common word?

lapsing 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 lapsing?

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