taming
noun, verb
taming is a noun meaning “The process by which a person, animal or thing is tamed” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-A-M-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of taming is tamings.
What does taming mean?
noun
- 1
The process by which a person, animal or thing is tamed.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of tame
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce taming?
Taming has 2 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 taming
- tamings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is taming?
Taming appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,974th 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).
Taming in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense process:
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.