moistening
noun, verb
moistening is a noun meaning “The act of making something moist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-I-S-T-E-N-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of moistening is moistenings.
What does moistening mean?
noun
- 1
The act of making something moist.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of moisten
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of moistening
- moistenings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is moistening?
Moistening appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th 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).
Moistening in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense noun:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | humedecimiento |
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.