feigning
/ˈfeɪnɪŋ/noun, verb
feigning is a noun meaning “Act of one who feigns; fakery; deceit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-I-G-N-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of feigning is feignings.
What does feigning mean?
noun
- 1
Act of one who feigns; fakery; deceit.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of feign
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce feigning?
- /ˈfeɪnɪŋ/
Feigning 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).
Forms of feigning
- feignings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is feigning?
Feigning appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th 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).