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chirruping

noun, verb

chirruping is spelled C-H-I-R-R-U-P-I-N-G: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, chirruping means “The act of producing a chirrup sound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of chirruping is chirrupings.

How many letters and syllables are in chirruping?

Letters10: C-H-I-R-R-U-P-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 36 million words; the 184,844th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is chirruping?

Chirruping appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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).

Forms of chirruping

  • chirrupings plural

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

What does chirruping mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The act of producing a chirrup sound.

    the chirrupings of birds

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of chirrup (a form of chirrup)

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

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