regulating

Other forms of regulating

plural

regulatings·

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 regulating

What does regulating mean?

regulating means "the act of controlling or directing according to rule".

How many syllables are in regulating?

regulating has 4 syllables: reg-u-la-ting. The stress falls on "reg". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛɡjəˌleɪtɪŋ/.

What is another word for regulating?

Close synonyms include regulation. 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 regulating a common word?

regulating 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 regulating?

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