requiring

re·quir·ing/ɹɪˈkwaɪɹ.ɪŋ/verb

requiring is spelled R-E-Q-U-I-R-I-N-G: 9 letters and 3 syllables (re·quir·ing). It appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,679th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, requiring means “present participle and gerund of require” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in requiring?

Letters	9: R-E-Q-U-I-R-I-N-G
Syllables	3: re·quir·ing
In writing	14 times per million words; the 5,679th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	inspiring inquiring uninspiring

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 requiring?

Requiring appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,679th most frequent word form in the list.

requiring0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce requiring?

UK /ɹɪˈkwaɪə.ɹɪŋ/
US /ɹɪˈkwaɪɹ.ɪŋ/

Requiring has 3 syllables, split re·quir·ing in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-requiring.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with requiring?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as requiring from its last stressed vowel (/aɪɹɪŋ/):

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 requiring mean?

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

verb

1
present participle and gerund of require (a form of require)

noun

1
archaicA requirement.
a. 1798, Joshua Evans In the days of my sorrow for sin, I fully believed there was in God alone, a rest for the righteous; and no true rest in any other way, than through obedience to his holy requirings.

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