flustering
flust·er·ing/ˈflʌstəɹɪŋ/adjective, verb
flustering is an adjective meaning “Agitated, confusing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-S-T-E-R-I-N-G and has 3 syllables (flust·er·ing), and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does flustering mean?
adjective
- 1
Agitated, confusing.
- 2
obsoleteBoasting or bragging noisily; blustering, swaggering.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of fluster
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flustering?
- US /ˈflʌstəɹɪŋ/
Flustering has 3 syllables, split flust·er·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flustering
- more flustering comparative
- most flustering superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flustering?
Flustering appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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).
Where does flustering come from?
From fluster + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).