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tiding

/ˈtaɪdɪŋ/verb

tiding is a verb meaning “present participle and gerund of tide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-I-D-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does tiding mean?

verb

  1. 1

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

noun

  1. 1

    archaicNews; new information.

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

How do you pronounce tiding?

  • /ˈtaɪdɪŋ/

Tiding 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-tiding.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is tiding?

Tiding appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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).

Tiding in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense news, new information:

LanguageWords
Frenchnouvelle
GermanKunde, Zeitung
Portuguesenotícias, novas
Spanishnoticia, nueva, novedad

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.

Where does tiding come from?

From a merger of Middle English tiding, tidinge, from Late Old English tīdung, with Middle English tidinde, tidende, from or influenced by Old Norse tíðindi (“news, tidings”), both connected to Old English tīdan (“to befall; happen”). Though it is sometimes assumed that the form in -ind/-end is original and later assimilated to -ing, the cognates Dutch tijding and German Zeitung point to inheritance from Proto-West Germanic *tīdungō. By surface analysis, tide (“time”) + -ing.

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