stiffening

Other forms of stiffening

plural

stiffenings·

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 stiffening

What does stiffening mean?

stiffening means "the act of becoming stiff". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stiffening?

stiffening has 3 syllables: stif-fe-ning. The stress falls on "stif". In IPA it is /ˈstɪfənɪŋ/.

What is another word for stiffening?

Close synonyms include rigidifying, rigidification. 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 stiffening a common word?

stiffening 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.