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winge

verb, noun

winge is spelled W-I-N-G-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, winge means “Alternative form of whinge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in winge?

Letters5: W-I-N-G-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 155,937th 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 winge?

Winge appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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 winge?

  • Australia

Winge has one syllable (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-au-winge.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of winge

  • winges present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • wingeing participle, present
  • winging participle, present
  • winged participle, past

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

What does winge mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    AustraliaUKslangAlternative form of whinge.

noun

  1. 1

    AustraliaUKslangAlternative form of whinge.

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

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