whispering

1. 1.

   making a low continuous indistinct sound

   “like murmuring waves”

   “susurrant voices”

   Synonymsmurmuringsusurrant

   Similarsoft

Other forms of whispering

plural

whisperings·

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 whispering

What does whispering mean?

whispering means "a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whispering?

whispering has 3 syllables: whis-pe-ring. The stress falls on "whis". In IPA it is /ˈwɪspɚɪŋ/.

What is another word for whispering?

Close synonyms include rustle, rustling, whisper, whisper, susurration. 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 whispering a common word?

whispering 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.