pretending

Other forms of pretending

plural

pretendings·

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 pretending

What does pretending mean?

pretending means "the act of giving a false appearance".

How many syllables are in pretending?

pretending has 3 syllables: pre-ten-ding. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /pɹiˈtɛndɪŋ/.

What is another word for pretending?

Close synonyms include pretense, pretence, simulation, feigning. 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 pretending a common word?

pretending is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 pretending?

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