Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hooting

/ˈhuːtɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English

Syllables: hoot-ing
IPA: /ˈhuːtɪŋ/

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of hoot

noun

The sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound.

Example Sentences

"Fritz Lang in Hollywood has remade the French "La Bête Humaine" story, setting the drama, a little coldly, among the great hooting diesels of the Middle West routes, […]."
"One small species, which is known to them by its melancholy nocturnal hootings (for as it never appears in the day few even of the hunters have ever seen it) is particularly ominous."
"Popanilla is found "not guilty, and kicked out of court, amidst the hootings of the mob, without a stain upon his reputation.""
"The hootings of this unhappy gentleman may generally be heard in the still evenings, when the rooks are all at rest; and I have often listened to them of a moonlight night with a kind of mysterious gratification."

Inflected Forms

hootings (plural)

Rhymes With

shooting routing skeet shooting transputing

Questions

How do you pronounce hooting?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈhuːtɪŋ/.
What does hooting mean?: present participle and gerund of hoot

How to pronounce hooting

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