balloting

Other forms of balloting

plural

ballotings·

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 balloting

What does balloting mean?

balloting means "a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative".

How many syllables are in balloting?

balloting has 3 syllables: bal-lo-ting. The stress falls on "bal". In IPA it is /ˈbælətɪŋ/.

What is another word for balloting?

Close synonyms include vote, ballot, voting. 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 balloting a common word?

balloting 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.