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combating

verb

combating is a verb meaning “Alternative spelling of combatting: present participle and gerund of combat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-M-B-A-T-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears 1.8 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does combating mean?

verb

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    Alternative spelling of combatting: present participle and gerund of combat

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

How do you pronounce combating?

    Combating 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 combating?

    Combating appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th 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).