receding

Other forms of receding

plural

recedings·

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 receding

What does receding mean?

receding means "a slow or gradual disappearance". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in receding?

receding has 3 syllables: re-ce-ding. The stress falls on "ce". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈsidɪŋ/.

What is another word for receding?

Close synonyms include fadeout, recession. 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 receding a common word?

receding 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 receding?

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