mingling

1. 1.

   the action of people mingling and coming into contact

   “all the random mingling and idle talk made him hate literary parties”

   Broadersocial activity

Other forms of mingling

plural

minglings·

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 mingling

What does mingling mean?

mingling means "the action of people mingling and coming into contact".

How many syllables are in mingling?

mingling has 3 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ˈmɪŋɡəlɪŋ/.

Is mingling a common word?

mingling 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.