Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sprouting

/spɹˈaʊtɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.84 in modern English

Syllables: sprout-ing
IPA: /spɹˈaʊtɪŋ/

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of sprout

noun

The act by which something sprouts.

Example Sentences

"The historical record before the war and after shows a tendency toward independent political action in the recurrent sproutings of numerous Labor Reform and Workingmen's parties[…]"
"What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq."

Inflected Forms

sproutings (plural)

Synonyms

germination

Rhymes With

shouting routing outing scouting doubting spouting touting pouting flouting grouting

Questions

How do you pronounce sprouting?: The recorded pronunciation is /spɹˈaʊtɪŋ/.
What does sprouting mean?: present participle and gerund of sprout

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