clucking
/ˈklʌkɪŋ/noun, adjective, verb
clucking is spelled C-L-U-C-K-I-N-G: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, clucking means “The action of the verb cluck; a cluck sound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of clucking is cluckings.
How many letters and syllables are in clucking?
| Letters | 8: C-L-U-C-K-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 80,453rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is clucking?
Clucking appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd 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).
How do you pronounce clucking?
- /ˈklʌkɪŋ/
Clucking 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). Recordings: En-au-clucking.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of clucking
- cluckings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does clucking mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The action of the verb cluck; a cluck sound.
adjective
- 1
slangfucking (as intensifier)
That clucking bastard!
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of cluck
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).