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flipping

/ˈflɪpɪŋ/adjective, adverb, noun, verb

flipping is spelled F-L-I-P-P-I-N-G: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.7 times per million words in written English, the 13,496th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, flipping means “A mild intensifier; a minced oath of "fucking"” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in flipping?

Letters8: F-L-I-P-P-I-N-G
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3.7 times per million words; the 13,496th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 flipping?

Flipping appears 3.7 times per million words in written English, the 13,496th 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 flipping?

  • /ˈflɪpɪŋ/

Flipping 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-flipping.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of flipping

  • flippings plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does flipping mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    A mild intensifier; a minced oath of "fucking".

    Where's my flipping watch?

adverb

  1. 1

    UKfucking; used as an intensifier to modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs

    Do you flipping think I'm stupid?

noun

  1. 1

    The process of something being flipped or turned over.

    coin flippings

  2. 2

    The practice of buying something, making improvements to it, and reselling it for a higher price.

  3. 3

    slangTripping on psychedelics while rolling on empathogens or entactogens.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of flip (a form of flip)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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