raping
noun, verb
raping is a noun meaning “Rape (sexual violation)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-P-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears 3.5 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of raping is rapings.
What does raping mean?
noun
- 1
Rape (sexual violation).
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of rape
Wiktionary also records raping as a common misspelling of another word in some uses; the senses above are its own.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce raping?
Raping 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 raping
- rapings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is raping?
Raping appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th 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).