fosterling

Questions about fosterling

What does fosterling mean?

fosterling means "a child who is raised by foster parents".

How many syllables are in fosterling?

fosterling has 3 syllables and divides as fo-ster-ling 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.

What is another word for fosterling?

Close synonyms include foster-child, foster child. 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 fosterling a common word?

fosterling 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.