rating

Other forms of rating

plural

ratings·

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 rating

What does rating mean?

rating means "an appraisal of the value of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rating?

rating has 2 syllables: ra-ting. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˈɹeɪtɪŋ/.

What is another word for rating?

Close synonyms include evaluation, valuation, evaluation, military rank, military rating. 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 rating a common word?

rating is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 rating?

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