sprawling

Other forms of sprawling

plural

sprawlings·

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 sprawling

What does sprawling mean?

sprawling means "an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sprawling?

sprawling has 2 syllables: spraw-ling. The stress falls on "spraw". In IPA it is /ˈspɹɔlɪŋ/.

What is another word for sprawling?

Close synonyms include sprawl, straggling, rambling, straggly. 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 sprawling a common word?

sprawling is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.