relating
/ɹɪˈleɪtɪŋ/noun, verb
relating is a noun meaning “The act of relating, or forming or identifying relationships; relation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-L-A-T-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears 16 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of relating is relatings.
What does relating mean?
noun
- 1
The act of relating, or forming or identifying relationships; relation.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of relate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce relating?
- US /ɹɪˈleɪtɪŋ/
Relating 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-relating.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of relating
- relatings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is relating?
Relating appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,025th 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).