raising
rais·ing/ˈɹeɪzɪŋ/noun, verb
raising is spelled R-A-I-S-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables (rais·ing). It appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, raising means “Elevation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of raising is raisings.
How many letters and syllables are in raising?
| Letters | 7: R-A-I-S-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: rais·ing |
| In writing | 27 times per million words; the 3,422nd 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; 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 raising?
Raising appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd 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 raising?
- /ˈɹeɪzɪŋ/
Raising has 2 syllables, split rais·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-raising.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with raising?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as raising.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: arising.
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 raising
- raisings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does raising mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Elevation.
- 2
Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity.
cattle raising
- 3
Recruitment.
- 4
Collection or gathering, especially of money.
- 5
USThe operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
to help at a raising
- 6
The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
- 7
A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
- 8
The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of raise
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Raising in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Erhebung , Großziehen, Aufziehen , Sammlung |
| Spanish | elevación, alzamiento, levantamiento , crianza, concienciación, concientización |
| French | montée |
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 raising come from?
Inherited from Middle English reysynge; equivalent to raise + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).