fawning

/fɔnɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb

fawning is spelled F-A-W-N-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,209th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, fawning means “Seeking favor by way of flattery; flattering, servile” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in fawning?

Letters	7: F-A-W-N-I-N-G
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	about once in every 2 million words; the 44,209th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is fawning?

Fawning appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,209th most frequent word form in the list.

fawning0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce fawning?

UK /fɔːnɪŋ/
US /fɔnɪŋ/
/fɑnɪŋ/

Fawning has 2 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)-Sapaa-fawning.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of fawning

fawnings plural

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

What does fawning mean?

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

adjective

1
Seeking favor by way of flattery; flattering, servile.

noun

1
Servile flattery.

verb

1
present participle and gerund of fawn (a form of fawn)