Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

wilding

/wˈaɪldɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English

Syllables: wild-ing
IPA: /wˈaɪldɪŋ/

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A wild apple or apple tree.

noun

Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc.

noun

A form of youth violence characterized by a group of young people committing violent acts randomly and without specific targets.

American usage; Countable; Uncountable

verb

present participle and gerund of wild

adj

Not cultivated or tame; wild.

name

noun

Any of a series of British stamps that have an image of Queen Elizabeth II based on a portrait by Dorothy Wilding.

Example Sentences

"These were ‘wildings’, wild crab apples (Malus sylvestris), a miniature of today's, native to the British Isles."
"Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring, / Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red […]"
"Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found."
"The fruit of the tree […] is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding."
"Those boys are bad enough, and soon they'll start their wilding."
"The wilding bee hums merrily by."

Etymology

From Middle English wilding, wylding, wyldyng (“grass, straw, or the stems of wild plants”), equivalent to wild + -ing.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: wilding
Suffix: wild

Usage

Inflected Forms

wildings (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

whirling

Questions

How do you pronounce wilding?: The recorded pronunciation is /wˈaɪldɪŋ/.
What does wilding mean?: A wild apple or apple tree.
Where does wilding come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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