funneling
noun, verb
funneling is a noun meaning “The process of passing something through a funnel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-N-N-E-L-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 funneling is funnelings.
What does funneling mean?
noun
- 1
The process of passing something through a funnel.
verb
- 1
USpresent participle and gerund of funnel
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce funneling?
Funneling 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 funneling
- funnelings plural
- funnelling
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is funneling?
Funneling appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,738th 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).