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phasing

/ˈfeɪzɪŋ/noun, verb

phasing is spelled P-H-A-S-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,649th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, phasing means “Movement through phases; arrangement of a sequence or cycle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of phasing is phasings.

How many letters and syllables are in phasing?

Letters7: P-H-A-S-I-N-G
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 29,649th 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 phasing?

Phasing appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,649th 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 phasing?

  • /ˈfeɪzɪŋ/

Phasing 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 phasing?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: shaping.

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 phasing

  • phasings plural

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

What does phasing mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Movement through phases; arrangement of a sequence or cycle.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

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