defaulting
noun, verb
defaulting is a noun meaning “The act or result of being defaulted, especially a failure to meet a financial obligation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-F-A-U-L-T-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of defaulting is defaultings.
What does defaulting mean?
noun
- 1
The act or result of being defaulted, especially a failure to meet a financial obligation.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of default
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce defaulting?
Defaulting 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 defaulting
- defaultings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is defaulting?
Defaulting appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,267th 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).
Defaulting in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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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.