How to Pronounce Sluicing

To pronounce "sluicing", say SLUIC-ing — 2 syllables. Tap play below to hear it in four English accents, or practice it syllable by syllable.

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Syllables

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Letters

SLUIC-ing

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💡 Tip for remembering “sluicing”

"sluicing" has 2 syllables: sluic-ing. It rhymes with inducing and introducing, if that helps it stick.

What does sluicing mean?

verb

  1. To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
  2. To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice

    “to sluice meadows”

noun

  1. The act by which something is sluiced; a copious wetting; a drenching.
  2. A kind of ellipsis, introduced by an interrogative, where (usually) everything except the interrogative is elided from the clause, as in "I like him, but I don't know why".

Words that rhyme with sluicing

Practicing rhymes trains the same ending sounds.

inducingintroducingproducingseducingloosingreducingmusangreproducinggoosingjuicingsprucingnoosing

Related words

sluicewaypenstockflushsousingsuffusiondiluviationdesludgingilluviation

Frequently asked questions

How many syllables are in "sluicing"?▾

"Sluicing" has 2 syllables: sluic · ing.

What does "sluicing" mean?▾

Sluicing: To emit by, or as by, flood gates.

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