soughing

Questions about soughing

What does soughing mean?

soughing means "characterized by soft sounds".

How many syllables are in soughing?

soughing has 2 syllables and divides as soug-hing under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for soughing?

Close synonyms include murmurous, rustling, susurrous. 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 soughing a common word?

soughing 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.