fleeing
/ˈfliːɪŋ/noun, verb
fleeing is spelled F-L-E-E-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 4.4 times per million words in written English, the 12,216th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, fleeing means “The act of one who flees” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of fleeing is fleeings.
How many letters and syllables are in fleeing?
| Letters | 7: F-L-E-E-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.4 times per million words; the 12,216th 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 fleeing?
Fleeing appears 4.4 times per million words in written English, the 12,216th 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 fleeing?
- /ˈfliːɪŋ/
Fleeing 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-fleeing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with fleeing?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as fleeing.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: feeling.
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 fleeing
- fleeings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does fleeing mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of one who flees.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of flee
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).