favouring
verb, noun
favouring is a verb meaning “present participle and gerund of favour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-V-O-U-R-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does favouring mean?
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of favour
noun
- 1
Alternative form of favoring.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of favouring
- favourings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is favouring?
Favouring appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 35,320th 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).
Words people confuse with favouring
Also written: favoring.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).