Digging

7 lettersnouncommon

Updated June 2026

Definition

The act or process of breaking up and moving earth or other material from the ground.

“Digging the vegetable patch in autumn made the soil much easier to work in spring.”

Pronunciation

Syllables

dig·ging

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Synonyms

excavationdig

Antonyms

filling burying

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Wordle

Double G in the middle, the -IGGING pattern also appears in JIGGING and RIGGING

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Words Related to Digging

Words one letter different

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bigging dagging dinging dirging gigging jigging

Words you can make from Digging

Shorter words formed from the letters in “digging”.

ding gigi ging nidi

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