qualifying

Other forms of qualifying

plural

qualifyings·

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 qualifying

What does qualifying mean?

qualifying means "the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in qualifying?

qualifying has 4 syllables: qua-li-fy-ing. The stress falls on "qua". In IPA it is /ˈkwɑləˌfaɪɪŋ/.

What is another word for qualifying?

Close synonyms include modification, limiting, passing, pass. 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 qualifying a common word?

qualifying 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 qualifying?

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