Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

strutting

/stɹˈʌtɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.71 in modern English

Syllables: strut-ting
IPA: /stɹˈʌtɪŋ/

10

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of strut

noun

The act of one who struts.

Example Sentences

"When dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat — snarlings and bristlings and stiff-legged struttings. But White Fang learned to omit these preliminaries."

Inflected Forms

struttings (plural)

Rhymes With

putting cutting shutting gutting butting jutting nutting abutting rebutting

Questions

How do you pronounce strutting?: The recorded pronunciation is /stɹˈʌtɪŋ/.
What does strutting mean?: present participle and gerund of strut

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