verging
noun, verb
verging is a noun meaning “A neusis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-R-G-I-N-G and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of verging is vergings.
What does verging mean?
noun
- 1
A neusis.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of verge
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce verging?
- US
Verging 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)-Flame,_not_lame-verging.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of verging
- vergings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is verging?
Verging appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 56,788th 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).