apportioning

Other forms of apportioning

plural

apportionings·

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 apportioning

What does apportioning mean?

apportioning means "the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan".

How many syllables are in apportioning?

apportioning has 4 syllables: ap-por-tio-ning. The stress falls on "por". In IPA it is /əˈpɔɹʃənɪŋ/.

What is another word for apportioning?

Close synonyms include allotment, apportionment, allocation, parceling, parcelling. 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 apportioning a common word?

apportioning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.