sallying
noun, verb
sallying is spelled S-A-L-L-Y-I-N-G: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sallying means “The act of one who sallies” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sallying is sallyings.
How many letters and syllables are in sallying?
| Letters | 8: S-A-L-L-Y-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 71 million words; the 265,644th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 sallying?
Sallying appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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 sallying?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sallying.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: signally.
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 sallying
- sallyings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sallying mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of one who sallies.
4 September 1798, Charles Brockden Brown, letter to William Dunlap Johnson & I are pretty well, but E H S, by midnight sallyings forth, sudden changes of temperature, fatigue & exposure to a noon day sun, is made sick.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of sally
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).