coking
noun, verb
coking is a noun meaning “The manufacture of coke via the destructive distillation of coal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-K-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of coking is cokings.
What does coking mean?
noun
- 1
The manufacture of coke via the destructive distillation of coal
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of coke
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce coking?
Coking has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of coking
- cokings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is coking?
Coking appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).