ducking

Other forms of ducking

plural

duckings·

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 ducking

What does ducking mean?

ducking means "hunting ducks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ducking?

ducking has 2 syllables: duc-king. The stress falls on "duc". In IPA it is /ˈdʌkɪŋ/.

What is another word for ducking?

Close synonyms include duck hunting, submersion, immersion, dousing. 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 ducking a common word?

ducking 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.