relating
/ɹɪˈleɪtɪŋ/noun, verb
relating is spelled R-E-L-A-T-I-N-G: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,025th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, relating means “The act of relating, or forming or identifying relationships; relation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of relating is relatings.
How many letters and syllables are in relating?
| Letters | 8: R-E-L-A-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 16 times per million words; the 5,025th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 relating?
Relating appears 16 times per million words in written English, the 5,025th 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 relating?
- US /ɹɪˈleɪtɪŋ/
Relating 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-relating.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with relating?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as relating from its last stressed vowel (/eɪtɪŋ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: integral, triangle, altering.
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 relating
- relatings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does relating mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of relating, or forming or identifying relationships; relation.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of relate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).