daydreaming
noun, verb
daydreaming is a noun meaning “An instance of daydreaming; a daydream or reverie” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-A-Y-D-R-E-A-M-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of daydreaming is daydreamings.
What does daydreaming mean?
noun
- 1
An instance of daydreaming; a daydream or reverie.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of daydream
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce daydreaming?
Daydreaming has 3 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 daydreaming
- daydreamings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is daydreaming?
Daydreaming appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,063rd 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).
Daydreaming in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | ensoñación diurna, ensoñamiento despierto, fantaseo, ensimismamiento, abstracción |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.