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sidelining

noun, verb

sidelining is spelled S-I-D-E-L-I-N-I-N-G: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 92,628th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sidelining means “Material added at the side or in the margin, as in a book” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sidelining is sidelinings.

How many letters and syllables are in sidelining?

Letters10: S-I-D-E-L-I-N-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 10 million words; the 92,628th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is sidelining?

Sidelining 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).

Forms of sidelining

  • sidelinings plural

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

What does sidelining mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Material added at the side or in the margin, as in a book.

  2. 2

    The act of pushing something aside; marginalization.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

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