cantering

1. 1.

   riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop

   “the cantering soldiers”

Questions about cantering

What does cantering mean?

cantering means "riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop".

How many syllables are in cantering?

cantering has 3 syllables and divides as can-te-ring under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is cantering a common word?

cantering is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.