cinching
/ˈsɪnt͡ʃɪŋ/noun, verb
cinching is a noun meaning “A fastening” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-I-N-C-H-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cinching is cinchings.
What does cinching mean?
noun
- 1
A fastening.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of cinch
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cinching?
- /ˈsɪnt͡ʃɪŋ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cinching
- cinchings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cinching?
Cinching appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd 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).