ranting
noun, verb
ranting is a noun meaning “A long, angry, and impassioned speech” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-N-T-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears 1.4 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ranting is rantings.
What does ranting mean?
noun
- 1
A long, angry, and impassioned speech.
- 2
The act or process of delivering a rant.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of rant
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce ranting?
Ranting 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 ranting
- rantings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ranting?
Ranting appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th 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).
Where does ranting come from?
From rant + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).