rustling

Other forms of rustling

plural

rustlings·

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 rustling

What does rustling mean?

rustling means "the stealing of cattle". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rustling?

rustling has 2 syllables: rust-ling. The stress falls on "rust". In IPA it is /ˈɹʌslɪŋ/.

What is another word for rustling?

Close synonyms include rustle, whisper, whispering, murmurous, soughing. 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 rustling a common word?

rustling 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.