faking
/ˈfeɪkɪŋ/noun, verb
faking is a noun meaning “The act of something being faked” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-K-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears 2.8 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of faking is fakings.
What does faking mean?
noun
- 1
The act of something being faked.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of fake
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce faking?
- /ˈfeɪkɪŋ/
Faking has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of faking
- fakings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is faking?
Faking appears 2.8 times per million words in written English, the 16,228th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).