attending

Other forms of attending

plural

attendings·

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 attending

What does attending mean?

attending means "the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in attending?

attending has 3 syllables: at-ten-ding. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /əˈtɛndɪŋ/.

What is another word for attending?

Close synonyms include attention, attendance. 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 attending a common word?

attending is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 attending?

2 words rhyme with attending. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.