restricting
adjective, verb
restricting is an adjective meaning “Serving to restrict” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-S-T-R-I-C-T-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears 3.3 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does restricting mean?
adjective
- 1
Serving to restrict.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of restrict
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce restricting?
Restricting 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).
Forms of restricting
- more restricting comparative
- most restricting superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is restricting?
Restricting appears 3.3 times per million words in written English, the 14,509th 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).
Restricting in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense serving to restrict:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | contraignant |
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.