prevailing

1. 1.

   most frequent or common

   “prevailing winds”

   Synonymsprevalentpredominantdominantrife

   Similarfrequent

Questions about prevailing

What does prevailing mean?

prevailing means "most frequent or common".

How many syllables are in prevailing?

prevailing has 3 syllables: pre-vai-ling. The stress falls on "vai". In IPA it is /pɹɪˈveɪlɪŋ/.

What is another word for prevailing?

Close synonyms include prevalent, predominant, dominant, rife. 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 prevailing a common word?

prevailing is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 prevailing?

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