tickling

Other forms of tickling

plural

ticklings·

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 tickling

What does tickling mean?

tickling means "the act of tickling". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tickling?

tickling has 2 syllables: tic-kling. The stress falls on "tic".

What is another word for tickling?

Close synonyms include tickle, titillation, tingling, titillating. 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 tickling a common word?

tickling 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.