fashioning
noun, verb
fashioning is a noun meaning “The act or process of fashioning something; manufacture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-S-H-I-O-N-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fashioning is fashionings.
What does fashioning mean?
noun
- 1
The act or process of fashioning something; manufacture.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of fashion
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fashioning?
- US
Fashioning 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-fashioning.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fashioning
- fashionings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fashioning?
Fashioning appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 55,433rd 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).