drifting

Other forms of drifting

plural

driftings·

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 drifting

What does drifting mean?

drifting means "aimless wandering from place to place". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drifting?

drifting has 2 syllables: drif-ting. The stress falls on "drif". In IPA it is /ˈdɹɪftɪŋ/.

What is another word for drifting?

Close synonyms include aimless, floating, vagabond, vagrant. 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 drifting a common word?

drifting is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.