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stuffing

/ˈstʌfɪŋ/noun, verb

stuffing is spelled S-T-U-F-F-I-N-G: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,613th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stuffing means “The matter used to stuff hollow objects such as pillows and saddles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stuffing is stuffings.

How many letters and syllables are in stuffing?

Letters8: S-T-U-F-F-I-N-G
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3.0 times per million words; the 15,613th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is stuffing?

Stuffing appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,613th 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 stuffing?

  • US /ˈstʌfɪŋ/
  • /ˈstʊfɪŋ/
  • /ˈstʊfɪŋɡ/

Stuffing 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-stuffing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of stuffing

  • stuffings plural

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

What does stuffing mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The matter used to stuff hollow objects such as pillows and saddles.

    The stuffing is made of synthetic goose down.

  2. 2

    Any of many food items used to stuff another.

    stuffing for a Christmas turkey

  3. 3

    The act of stuffing something with another thing.

    I'll make the sauce if you do the stuffing of the chicken.

  4. 4

    A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.

  5. 5

    slangSevere defeat.

    United were given an absolute stuffing by City.

  6. 6

    The insertion of many copies of a word into a web page in an attempt to increase its search engine ranking.

  7. 7

    USA tax loophole whereby a corporation acquires property that will result in a loss of revenue, purely in order to reduce its tax liability.

  8. 8

    slangvulgarAn act of penetrative sexual intercourse.

    I gave her a good stuffing.

verb

  1. 1

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

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

Stuffing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchrembourrage (matter used to stuff hollow objects), farce (food items used to stuff another)
GermanFüllmaterial, Füllung (matter used to stuff hollow objects)
Spanishsocol, mullido, miraguano, guata, relleno, henchimiento (matter used to stuff hollow objects)
Portugueserecheio (food items used to stuff another)

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 stuffing come from?

By surface analysis, stuff + -ing.

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

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