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freezing

UK /ˈfɹiːz.ɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb

freezing is spelled F-R-E-E-Z-I-N-G: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,565th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, freezing means “Suffering or causing frost” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in freezing?

Letters8: F-R-E-E-Z-I-N-G
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing11 times per million words; the 6,565th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 freezing?

Freezing appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,565th 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 freezing?

  • UK /ˈfɹiːz.ɪŋ/

Freezing 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)-Persent101-freezing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with freezing?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as freezing from its last stressed vowel (/izɪŋ/, British pronunciation):

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 freezing

  • more freezing comparative
  • most freezing superlative
  • freezings plural

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

What does freezing mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Suffering or causing frost.

  2. 2

    Very cold.

  3. 3

    The freezing point of water, zero degrees celsius.

  4. 4

    Aloof, unfriendly.

noun

  1. 1

    The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.

    The temp in the mountains may/can fall below freezing at this time of year.

  2. 2

    The action of numbing with anesthetics.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

Freezing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpolaire (very cold), solidification (the change in state of a substance from liquid…), anesthésie (the action of numbing with anesthetics)
Germanfrostig, affenkalt, saukalt, arschkalt (very cold), Erstarren, Gefrieren (the change in state of a substance from liquid…)
Spanishhelado, arrecido (very cold)

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 freezing come from?

By surface analysis, freeze + -ing.

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

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