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folding

fold·ing/ˈfoʊldɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb

folding is spelled F-O-L-D-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables (fold·ing). It appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, folding means “Designed to fold” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in folding?

Letters7: F-O-L-D-I-N-G
Syllables2: fold·ing
In writing5.0 times per million words; the 11,198th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 folding?

Folding appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th 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 folding?

  • UK /ˈfəʊldɪŋ/
  • US /ˈfoʊldɪŋ/

Folding has 2 syllables, split fold·ing in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-folding.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with folding?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as folding from its last stressed vowel (/oʊldɪŋ/):

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 folding

  • foldings plural

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

What does folding mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Designed to fold

    a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair

noun

  1. 1

    The action of folding; a fold.

  2. 2

    The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.

  3. 3

    Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.

  4. 4

    the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.

  5. 5

    slangPaper money, as opposed to coins.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of fold (a form of fold)

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

Folding in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpliant, repliable, rabattable (made to fold), pliage, plissement (action of folding)
GermanKlapp- (made to fold), Falten, Klappen (action of folding)
Spanishplegable (made to fold)

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 folding come from?

By surface analysis, fold + -ing.

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

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