Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cavilling

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cav-illing
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of cavil

noun

Example Sentences

"God's word suffers nothing from such captious queryings and cavillings as deface the pages of the modern destructive school."

Inflected Forms

cavillings (plural)

Questions

What does cavilling mean?: present participle and gerund of cavil

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