flaring
adjective, noun, verb
flaring is an adjective meaning “Having a tendency of streaming, flapping, or spreading broadly as if within a current of air or in outer space” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-R-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does flaring mean?
adjective
- 1
Having a tendency of streaming, flapping, or spreading broadly as if within a current of air or in outer space.
noun
- 1
The act of something that flares.
- 2
The deliberate open-air burning of natural gas that is generated as a by-product of various petrochemical processes, especially oil extraction; gas flaring.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of flare
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flaring?
Flaring 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 flaring
- more flaring comparative
- most flaring superlative
- flarings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flaring?
Flaring appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,832nd 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).