leavings
noun
leavings is spelled L-E-A-V-I-N-G-S: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, leavings means “A worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in leavings?
| Letters | 8: L-E-A-V-I-N-G-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 15 million words; the 115,751st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 leavings?
Leavings appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st 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 leavings?
Leavings 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 leavings?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as leavings.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: svengali.
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).
What does leavings mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood.
The poor survive on the leavings of the rich and wasteful.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does leavings come from?
Participial form of "leave".
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).