Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mustering

/mˈʌstɚɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.40 in modern English

Syllables: mus-ter-ing
IPA: /mˈʌstɚɪŋ/

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of muster

noun

A bringing together, as of livestock for counting.

noun

A group of storks.

Example Sentences

"They are demonstrations in the literal sense: musterings of potential voters, beauty pageants of potential contributors, inventories of the ethnic loyalties that count most in a metropolitan area of a thousand intermingled peoples."
"I don't think an entire mustering of storks would have been able to peck away at her hostility."
"all the cranes standing like a mustering of storks dipped their jibs in salute"
"The last known stork died here in 1971 and, in 1985, a new mustering of storks was introduced from Russia."

Inflected Forms

musterings (plural)

Rhymes With

clustering blustering flustering

Questions

How do you pronounce mustering?: The recorded pronunciation is /mˈʌstɚɪŋ/.
What does mustering mean?: present participle and gerund of muster

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