leavening

Other forms of leavening

plural

leavenings·

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 leavening

What does leavening mean?

leavening means "an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in leavening?

leavening has 3 syllables: leav-e-ning. The stress falls on "leav". In IPA it is /ˈlɛvənɪŋ/.

What is another word for leavening?

Close synonyms include leaven, leaven. 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 leavening a common word?

leavening 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.