feeding
/ˈfiːdɪŋ/noun, verb
feeding is spelled F-E-E-D-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,444th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, feeding means “The act or process of giving food” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of feeding is feedings.
How many letters and syllables are in feeding?
| Letters | 7: F-E-E-D-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 19 times per million words; the 4,444th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is feeding?
Feeding appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,444th 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 feeding?
- /ˈfiːdɪŋ/
Feeding 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)-Vealhurl-feeding.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with feeding?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as feeding.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: feigned.
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 feeding
- feedings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does feeding mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act or process of giving food.
premium blend for feeding of dairy herds
- 2
An instance or session of giving food.
the morning feeding might differ from the evening feeding in protein content
- 3
The act or process of eating.
feeding from round bales is necessary here in winter, when pasturage is ebbed
- 4
An instance or session of eating.
picked up hardware disease during a feeding outside the intended pasture
- 5
datedThat which is eaten: food, feed, or fodder.
- 6
datedThat which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals.
- 7
The loading of material into a machine that will process it.
caution in the feeding of the No. 3 mill
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of feed
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Feeding in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an instance of giving food:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | alimentación |
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.
Where does feeding come from?
By surface analysis, feed + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).