prickling

Questions about prickling

What does prickling mean?

prickling means "a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings".

How many syllables are in prickling?

prickling has 2 syllables and divides as pric-kling 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 prickling?

Close synonyms include tingle, tingling. 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 prickling a common word?

prickling 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.