mewing

noun, verb

mewing is spelled M-E-W-I-N-G: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mewing means “The act of producing a mew sound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mewing is mewings.

How many letters and syllables are in mewing?

Letters	6: M-E-W-I-N-G
In writing	about once in every 12 million words; the 103,949th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none 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 mewing?

Mewing appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce mewing?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-mewing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of mewing

mewings plural

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

What does mewing mean?

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

noun

1
The act of producing a mew sound.
The mewings of the three kittens kept us awake for most of the night.
2
slangThe practice of flattening one's tongue against the roof of the mouth with the aim of improving jaw and facial structure.
Some people say that mewing may allow for a better jawline.

verb

1
present participle and gerund of mew (“produce a mew sound”) (a form of mew)
2
present participle and gerund of mew (“flatten one's tongue against the roof of the mouth, with the aim of improving jaw and facial structure”) (a form of mew)