reconnoitering
/ˌɹɛkəˈnɔɪtəɹɪŋ/noun, verb
reconnoitering is a noun meaning “A reconnoiter of enemy land or position” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-C-O-N-N-O-I-T-E-R-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of reconnoitering is reconnoiterings.
What does reconnoitering mean?
noun
- 1
A reconnoiter of enemy land or position.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of reconnoiter
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce reconnoitering?
- /ˌɹɛkəˈnɔɪtəɹɪŋ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of reconnoitering
- reconnoiterings plural
- reconnoitring
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is reconnoitering?
Reconnoitering appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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).