forestalling
noun, verb
forestalling is a noun meaning “The act of one who forestalls” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-E-S-T-A-L-L-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of forestalling is forestallings.
What does forestalling mean?
noun
- 1
The act of one who forestalls.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of forestall
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce forestalling?
Forestalling 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 forestalling
- forestallings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is forestalling?
Forestalling appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th 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 forestalling come from?
From Middle English forstallyng, forstallynge, equivalent to forestall + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).