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skirling

/ˈskɝlɪŋ/noun, verb

skirling is spelled S-K-I-R-L-I-N-G: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, skirling means “A small trout or salmon” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of skirling is skirlings.

How many letters and syllables are in skirling?

Letters8: S-K-I-R-L-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 60 million words; the 243,301st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 skirling?

Skirling appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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).

How do you pronounce skirling?

  • UK /ˈskɜːlɪŋ/
  • US /ˈskɝlɪŋ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-skirling.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with skirling?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as skirling from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹlɪŋ/):

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 skirling

  • skirlings plural

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

What does skirling mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    UKA small trout or salmon.

  2. 2

    ScotlandA shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

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