how to pronounce sleeping

/ˈsliːpɪŋ/

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sleeping is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of sleeping in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… my patterns were my sleeping patterns my …”

meanings of sleeping

adjective:

Used for sleep; used to produce sleep.
Asleep.

verb:

Present participle of sleep.

noun:

The state of being asleep, or an instance of this.

sleeping frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word sleeping occurs in english on average 45.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.