shuffling

Other forms of shuffling

plural

shufflings·

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 shuffling

What does shuffling mean?

shuffling means "walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shuffling?

shuffling has 2 syllables: shuf-fling. The stress falls on "shuf". In IPA it is /ˈʃʌflɪŋ/.

What is another word for shuffling?

Close synonyms include shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffle, make. 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 shuffling a common word?

shuffling 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.