fleeing
/ˈfliːɪŋ/noun, verb
fleeing is a noun meaning “The act of one who flees” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-E-E-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears 4.4 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fleeing is fleeings.
What does fleeing mean?
noun
- 1
The act of one who flees.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of flee
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fleeing?
- /ˈfliːɪŋ/
Fleeing 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-fleeing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fleeing
- fleeings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fleeing?
Fleeing appears 4.4 times per million words in written English, the 12,216th 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).