whirring

Other forms of whirring

plural

whirrings·

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 whirring

What does whirring mean?

whirring means "sound of something in rapid motion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whirring?

whirring has 2 syllables: whir-ring. The stress falls on "whir". In IPA it is /ˈwɝɪŋ/.

What is another word for whirring?

Close synonyms include whir, whirr, birr. 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 whirring a common word?

whirring is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.