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scuffing

noun, verb

scuffing is a noun meaning “A scuff mark” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-C-U-F-F-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of scuffing is scuffings.

What does scuffing mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A scuff mark.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of scuff (a form of scuff)

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

Forms of scuffing

  • scuffings plural

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

How common is scuffing?

Scuffing appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 92,628th 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).