arising
/əˈɹaɪzɪŋ/noun, verb
arising is spelled A-R-I-S-I-N-G: 7 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 5.2 times per million words in written English, the 10,843rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, arising means “The process by which something arises; origination; occurrence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of arising is arisings.
How many letters and syllables are in arising?
| Letters | 7: A-R-I-S-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.2 times per million words; the 10,843rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is arising?
Arising appears 5.2 times per million words in written English, the 10,843rd 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).
How do you pronounce arising?
- /əˈɹaɪzɪŋ/
Arising 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: En-us-arising.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with arising?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as arising.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: raising.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of arising
- arisings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does arising mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The process by which something arises; origination; occurrence.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of arise
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).