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rescinding

noun, verb

rescinding is spelled R-E-S-C-I-N-D-I-N-G: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,179th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, rescinding means “An instance of something being rescinded” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of rescinding is rescindings.

How many letters and syllables are in rescinding?

Letters10: R-E-S-C-I-N-D-I-N-G
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 62,179th 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 rescinding?

Rescinding appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,179th 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 rescinding?

    Rescinding 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).

    What rhymes with rescinding?

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

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: discerning.

    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 rescinding

    • rescindings plural

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

    What does rescinding mean?

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

    noun

    1. 1

      An instance of something being rescinded.

    verb

    1. 1

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

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

    Rescinding in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    In the sense Translations:

    LanguageWords
    GermanWiderrufung, Widerrufen

    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.

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