somersaulting

Other forms of somersaulting

plural

somersaultings·

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 somersaulting

What does somersaulting mean?

somersaulting means "an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return".

How many syllables are in somersaulting?

somersaulting has 4 syllables: som-er-saul-ting. The stress falls on "som". In IPA it is /ˈsʌmɚˌsɔltɪŋ/.

What is another word for somersaulting?

Close synonyms include somersault, somerset, summersault, summerset, flip. 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 somersaulting a common word?

somersaulting 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.

What rhymes with somersaulting?

1 word rhymes with somersaulting. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.