prying

Other forms of prying

plural

pryings·

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 prying

What does prying mean?

prying means "offensive inquisitiveness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prying?

prying has 2 syllables: pry-ing. The stress falls on "pry". In IPA it is /ˈpɹaɪɪŋ/.

What is another word for prying?

Close synonyms include nosiness, snoopiness, nosy, nosey, snoopy. 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 prying a common word?

prying 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.