airing

Other forms of airing

plural

airings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about airing

What does airing mean?

airing means "the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in airing?

airing has 2 syllables: air-ing. The stress falls on "air". In IPA it is /ˈɛɹɪŋ/.

What is another word for airing?

Close synonyms include dissemination, public exposure, spreading, ventilation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is airing a common word?

airing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with airing?

1 word rhymes with airing. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.