confronting
adjective, verb
confronting is an adjective meaning “Causing distress; upsetting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-N-F-R-O-N-T-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears 2.9 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does confronting mean?
adjective
- 1
Causing distress; upsetting.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of confront
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce confronting?
Confronting 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).
Forms of confronting
- more confronting comparative
- most confronting superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is confronting?
Confronting appears 2.9 times per million words in written English, the 15,798th 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).
Confronting in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense causing distress; upsetting:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | desolador |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.