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whistle-blowing

noun

whistle-blowing is spelled W-H-I-S-T-L-E-B-L-O-W-I-N-G: 14 letters. As a noun, whistle-blowing means “The action of a whistleblower” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of whistle-blowing is whistle-blowings.

How many letters and syllables are in whistle-blowing?

Letters14: W-H-I-S-T-L-E-B-L-O-W-I-N-G
In writinga phrase: the frequency list counts single words
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).

Words people confuse with whistle-blowing

Also written: whistleblowing (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of whistle-blowing

  • whistle-blowings plural

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

What does whistle-blowing mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The action of a whistleblower.

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

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