leaving

Other forms of leaving

plural

leavings·

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 leaving

What does leaving mean?

leaving means "the act of departing".

How many syllables are in leaving?

leaving has 2 syllables: lea-ving. The stress falls on "lea". In IPA it is /ˈlivɪŋ/.

What is another word for leaving?

Close synonyms include departure, going, going away. 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 leaving a common word?

leaving 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.

What rhymes with leaving?

3 words rhyme with leaving. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.