bathing

Other forms of bathing

plural

bathings·

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 bathing

What does bathing mean?

bathing means "immersing the body in water or sunshine". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bathing?

bathing has 2 syllables: ba-thing. The stress falls on "ba". In IPA it is /ˈbeɪðɪŋ/.

What is another word for bathing?

Close synonyms include washup. 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 bathing a common word?

bathing 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.