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pottering

noun, verb

pottering is spelled P-O-T-T-E-R-I-N-G: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pottering means “The act of one who potters” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pottering is potterings.

How many letters and syllables are in pottering?

Letters9: P-O-T-T-E-R-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 106,501st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is pottering?

Pottering appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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).

What rhymes with pottering?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as pottering.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: pottinger.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of pottering

  • potterings plural

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

What does pottering mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The act of one who potters.

    Had Feltram in some of his solitary wanderings and potterings lighted upon hidden treasure?

verb

  1. 1

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

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

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