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stealthing

noun, verb

stealthing is spelled S-T-E-A-L-T-H-I-N-G: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stealthing means “The practice of removing a condom during sex, without a partner's knowledge or consent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in stealthing?

Letters10: S-T-E-A-L-T-H-I-N-G
In writingabout once in every 89 million words; the 301,415th 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 stealthing?

Stealthing appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th 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 stealthing?

  • US

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

What does stealthing mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The practice of removing a condom during sex, without a partner's knowledge or consent.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

Where does stealthing come from?

From stealth + -ing.

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

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