reconnoitring

1. 1.

   exploring in order to gain information

   “scouting in enemy territory is very dangerous”

   Synonymsscoutingexploratory surveyreconnoitering

   Broaderreconnaissance

Other forms of reconnoitring

plural

reconnoitrings·

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 reconnoitring

What does reconnoitring mean?

reconnoitring means "exploring in order to gain information".

How many syllables are in reconnoitring?

reconnoitring has 4 syllables: re-con-noi-tring. The stress falls on "con".

What is another word for reconnoitring?

Close synonyms include scouting, exploratory survey, reconnoitering. 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 reconnoitring a common word?

reconnoitring 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.