deicing
noun, verb
deicing is a noun meaning “The removal of ice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-E-I-C-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of deicing is deicings.
What does deicing mean?
noun
- 1
The removal of ice.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of deice
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of deicing
- deicings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is deicing?
Deicing appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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).
Deicing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | deshelar, deshielar |
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.