rolling

1. 1.

   uttered with a trill

   “she used rolling r's as in Spanish”

   Synonymsrolledtrilled

   Similarpronounceable

Other forms of rolling

plural

rollings·

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 rolling

What does rolling mean?

rolling means "a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rolling?

rolling has 2 syllables: rol-ling. The stress falls on "rol". In IPA it is /ˈɹoʊlɪŋ/.

What is another word for rolling?

Close synonyms include peal, pealing, roll, wheeling, rolled. 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 rolling a common word?

rolling is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.