quarrelling
noun, verb
quarrelling is a noun meaning “A heated argument” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Q-U-A-R-R-E-L-L-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of quarrelling is quarrellings.
What does quarrelling mean?
noun
- 1
A heated argument.
Their constant quarrellings made them impossible to live with.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of quarrel
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of quarrelling
- quarrellings plural
- quarreling
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is quarrelling?
Quarrelling appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 70,702nd 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).