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gawping

adjective, noun, verb

gawping is spelled G-A-W-P-I-N-G: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, gawping means “That gawps or gawp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in gawping?

Letters7: G-A-W-P-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 19 million words; the 130,282nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is gawping?

Gawping appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd 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).

Forms of gawping

  • gawpings plural

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

What does gawping mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    UKThat gawps or gawp.

    gawping faces

noun

  1. 1

    UKThe action of the verb gawp.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

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