stirring
/ˈstɝɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb
stirring is spelled S-T-I-R-R-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is stiring: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Stirring is an adjective meaning “invigorating or inspiring”.
How many letters and syllables are in stirring?
| Letters | 8: S-T-I-R-R-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.8 times per million words; the 11,541st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, stiring, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell stirring?
Stirring is spelled S-T-I-R-R-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for stirring in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is stirring?
Stirring appears 4.8 times per million words in written English, the 11,541st 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 stirring?
- US /ˈstɝɪŋ/
- UK /ˈstɜːɹɪŋ/
Stirring has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-stirring.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with stirring?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as stirring from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹɪŋ/):
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 stirring
- more stirring comparative
- most stirring superlative
- stirrings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stirring mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
invigorating or inspiring
22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/ The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North America
noun
- 1
An occasion on which something stirs or is stirred
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of stir
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stirring in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense invigorating, inspiring:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | passionnant, enthousiasmant |
| German | ergreifend, bewegend, aufwühlend |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does stirring come from?
By surface analysis, stir + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).