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meowing

noun, verb

meowing is spelled M-E-O-W-I-N-G: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 50,539th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, meowing means “The act of uttering a meow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of meowing is meowings.

How many letters and syllables are in meowing?

Letters7: M-E-O-W-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 50,539th 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 meowing?

Meowing appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 50,539th 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 meowing

  • meowings plural

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

What does meowing mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The act of uttering a meow.

    the constant meowings of the neighbour's cats

verb

  1. 1

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

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

Meowing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense act of uttering a meow:

LanguageWords
Frenchmiaulement

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.

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