thrusting
noun, verb
thrusting is spelled T-H-R-U-S-T-I-N-G: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,168th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, thrusting means “The motion by which someone or something thrusts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of thrusting is thrustings.
How many letters and syllables are in thrusting?
| Letters | 9: T-H-R-U-S-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 31,168th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 thrusting?
Thrusting appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,168th 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 thrusting?
- US
Thrusting 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-thrusting.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of thrusting
- thrustings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does thrusting mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The motion by which someone or something thrusts.
- 2
obsoleterareThe act of squeezing curd by hand, to expel the whey.
- 3
obsoleterareThe white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made.
a. 1802, quoted in The Domestic Encyclopedia
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of thrust
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).