lisping
noun, verb
lisping is a noun meaning “That which is spoken in a lisp” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-I-S-P-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lisping is lispings.
What does lisping mean?
noun
- 1
That which is spoken in a lisp.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of lisp
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of lisping
- lispings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lisping?
Lisping appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd 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).
Lisping in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense that which is spoken with a lisp:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.