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gooding

/ɡˈʊdɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.57 in modern English

Syllables
good-ing
IPA
/ɡˈʊdɪŋ/
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of good

name

A surname.

name

An unincorporated community in Boulder County, Colorado, United States.

name

A city, the county seat of Gooding County, Idaho, United States.

Etymology

From the Old English hypocorism Gōding, from gōd (“god”) + -ing (“diminutive suffix”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

Goodings (plural) Godding (alternative) Goding (alternative) Goodinge (alternative) Goodings (alternative)

Phrases

Gooding County

Rhymes With

pudding wooding

Questions

How do you pronounce gooding?
The recorded pronunciation is /ɡˈʊdɪŋ/.
What does gooding mean?
present participle and gerund of good
Where does gooding come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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