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hurrying

UK /ˈhʌɹi.ɪŋ/noun, verb

hurrying is spelled H-U-R-R-Y-I-N-G: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,267th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hurrying means “The act of one who hurries; hasty motion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hurrying is hurryings.

How many letters and syllables are in hurrying?

Letters8: H-U-R-R-Y-I-N-G
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 40,267th 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 hurrying?

Hurrying appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,267th 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 hurrying?

  • UK /ˈhʌɹi.ɪŋ/
  • /ˈhʌɹi.ɪŋ/
  • /ˈhɝ.i.ɪŋ/

Hurrying has 3 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: En-us-hurrying.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with hurrying?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as hurrying from its last stressed vowel (/ʌɹiɪŋ/, 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 hurrying

  • hurryings plural

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

What does hurrying mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The act of one who hurries; hasty motion.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

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