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lawing

noun, verb

lawing is spelled L-A-W-I-N-G: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, lawing means “Going to law; litigation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of lawing is lawings.

How many letters and syllables are in lawing?

Letters6: L-A-W-I-N-G
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 81 million words; the 286,585th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 lawing?

Lawing appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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 lawing?

    Lawing 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).

    What rhymes with lawing?

    No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as lawing.

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: waling.

    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 lawing

    • lawings plural

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

    What does lawing mean?

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

    noun

    1. 1

      Going to law; litigation.

    2. 2

      ScotlandUKobsoleteMoney owed for a service rendered.

    verb

    1. 1

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

    2. 2

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

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

    Where does lawing come from?

    From law + -ing.

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

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