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quarreling

verb, noun

quarreling is a verb meaning “US standard spelling of quarrelling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Q-U-A-R-R-E-L-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does quarreling mean?

verb

  1. 1

    USUS standard spelling of quarrelling.

noun

  1. 1

    USUS standard spelling of quarrelling.

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

How do you pronounce quarreling?

    Quarreling has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

    Forms of quarreling

    • quarrelling
    • quarrelings plural

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

    How common is quarreling?

    Quarreling appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,179th 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).