relapsing

Other forms of relapsing

plural

relapsings·

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 relapsing

What does relapsing mean?

relapsing means "a failure to maintain a higher state".

How many syllables are in relapsing?

relapsing has 3 syllables: re-lap-sing. The stress falls on "lap". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈlæpsɪŋ/.

What is another word for relapsing?

Close synonyms include backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, reversion. 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 relapsing a common word?

relapsing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 relapsing?

1 word rhymes with relapsing. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.