puddling
noun, verb
puddling is a noun meaning “The action of forming a puddle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-U-D-D-L-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of puddling is puddlings.
What does puddling mean?
noun
- 1
The action of forming a puddle.
- 2
The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids.
- 3
The act of lining a canal with puddle to make it watertight.
- 4
The processing of pig iron (with high carbon content) by placing it into a reverberatory furnace, stirring to expose it to oxygen and create puddled iron and then (with further stirring to fully decarbonize it) wrought iron.
- 5
A group of mallards (ducks).
- 6
A behaviour in which animals like butterflies seek out moist substances to obtain nutrients.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of puddle
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of puddling
- puddlings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is puddling?
Puddling appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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).
Puddling in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense act of lining a canal with puddling:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | puddlage |
| Spanish | pudelación |
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.