Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shorting

/ʃˈɔɹtɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.61 in modern English

Syllables: short-ing
IPA: /ʃˈɔɹtɪŋ/

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of short

noun

Countable; Uncountable

noun

short circuit; outage

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[…] rotted and cracked, and occasionally the water would seep through to the bare wires and cause shortings and electric fires."
"There was a signal station, an old Italian military relic, the equipment in it so dangerous, due to electrical shortings, that the Italian soldier who looked after it used to pray before he used it."
"Being “free surface” it made the rolling linger longer at the extremes, and it was this lingering that was causing the shortings and the blackouts to last longer."

Usage

Inflected Forms

shortings (plural)

Rhymes With

supporting reporting sporting sorting transporting exporting importing resorting courting snorting distorting purporting

Questions

How do you pronounce shorting?: The recorded pronunciation is /ʃˈɔɹtɪŋ/.
What does shorting mean?: present participle and gerund of short

How to pronounce shorting

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