wakening

Questions about wakening

What does wakening mean?

wakening means "the act of waking".

How many syllables are in wakening?

wakening has 3 syllables and divides as wa-ke-ning under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for wakening?

Close synonyms include awakening, waking up. 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 wakening a common word?

wakening 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.