dunking
noun, verb
dunking is a noun meaning “The act or process of briefly submerging or immersing an object or person in a liquid, as in dunking a cookie in milk, or dunking a playmate in the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-U-N-K-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of dunking is dunkings.
What does dunking mean?
noun
- 1
The act or process of briefly submerging or immersing an object or person in a liquid, as in dunking a cookie in milk, or dunking a playmate in the swimming pool.
- 2
Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of dunk
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of dunking
- dunkings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is dunking?
Dunking appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,145th 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).
Dunking in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Eintauchen , Dunking |
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.