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glaring

/ˈɡlɛɹɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb

glaring is spelled G-L-A-R-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,336th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, glaring means “Reflecting with glare” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in glaring?

Letters7: G-L-A-R-I-N-G
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.0 times per million words; the 19,336th 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 glaring?

Glaring appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,336th 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 glaring?

  • UK /ˈɡlɛəɹɪŋ/
  • US /ˈɡlɛɹɪŋ/

Glaring 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)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-glaring.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with glaring?

9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as glaring from its last stressed vowel (/ɛɹɪŋ/):

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 glaring

  • more glaring comparative
  • most glaring superlative
  • glarings plural

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

What does glaring mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Reflecting with glare.

  2. 2

    Blatant, obvious.

    How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!

  3. 3

    Garish

    painted in glaring oranges and greens

noun

  1. 1

    The act of giving a glare.

  2. 2

    rareA group of cats.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

Glaring in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germangrell leuchtend, hell strahlend (reflecting with glare), krass, schreiend, eklatant (blatant, obvious)
Portuguesereluzente (reflecting with glare), óbvio, gritante (blatant, obvious)
Spanishreluciente (reflecting with glare), garrafal, palmario (blatant, obvious)
Frenchévident (blatant, obvious)

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 glaring come from?

By surface analysis, glare + -ing.

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

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