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excepting

ex·cept·ing/ɪkˈsɛptɪŋ/preposition, verb

excepting is spelled E-X-C-E-P-T-I-N-G: 9 letters and 3 syllables (ex·cept·ing). It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,565th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a preposition, excepting means “with the exception of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in excepting?

Letters9: E-X-C-E-P-T-I-N-G
Syllables3: ex·cept·ing
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 36,565th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 excepting?

Excepting appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,565th 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 excepting?

  • /ɪkˈsɛptɪŋ/
  • /əkˈsɛptɪŋ/

Excepting has 3 syllables, split ex·cept·ing in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-excepting.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with excepting?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as excepting.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: expecting.

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 excepting

  • cept'n
  • 'cept'n

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

What does excepting mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

preposition

  1. 1

    with the exception of

    Nothing was to be sacrosanct or sacred, excepting reason itself.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of except (a form of except)

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

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