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relapsing

verb

relapsing is a verb meaning “present participle and gerund of relapse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-L-A-P-S-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does relapsing mean?

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of relapse (a form of relapse)

noun

  1. 1

    archaicA relapse.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce relapsing?

    Relapsing has 3 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).

    How common is relapsing?

    Relapsing appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,368th 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).