baking

Other forms of baking

plural

bakings·

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 baking

What does baking mean?

baking means "making bread or cake or pastry etc.". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in baking?

baking has 2 syllables: ba-king. The stress falls on "ba". In IPA it is /ˈbeɪkɪŋ/.

What is another word for baking?

Close synonyms include baking hot. 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 baking a common word?

baking 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.