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refuelling

noun, verb

refuelling is a noun meaning “The provision of more fuel to replace that used up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-F-U-E-L-L-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of refuelling is refuellings.

What does refuelling mean?

noun

  1. 1

    UKThe provision of more fuel to replace that used up.

verb

  1. 1

    UKpresent participle and gerund of refuel (a form of refuel)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of refuelling

  • refuellings plural
  • refueling

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is refuelling?

Refuelling appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,775th 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).