fidgeting
noun, verb
fidgeting is a noun meaning “A fidgety motion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-D-G-E-T-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fidgeting is fidgetings.
What does fidgeting mean?
noun
- 1
A fidgety motion.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of fidget
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fidgeting?
Fidgeting 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 fidgeting
- fidgetings plural
- fidgetting
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fidgeting?
Fidgeting appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 54,808th 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).
Fidgeting in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense fidgeting:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | movimiento nervioso, moción compulsiva |
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.