dinge

Other forms of dinge

plural

dinges·

past tense

dinged·

present participle

dinging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dinge

What does dinge mean?

dinge means "make a dent or impression in". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dinge?

dinge has 1 syllable: dinge.

What is another word for dinge?

Close synonyms include batter, dinginess. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dinge a common word?

dinge 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.