gosling

1. 1.

   young goose

   Broadergoose

Other forms of gosling

plural

goslings·

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 gosling

What does gosling mean?

gosling means "young goose".

How many syllables are in gosling?

gosling has 2 syllables: go-sling. The stress falls on "go".

Is gosling a common word?

gosling is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.