bending

Other forms of bending

plural

bendings·

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 bending

What does bending mean?

bending means "movement that causes the formation of a curve". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bending?

bending has 2 syllables: ben-ding. The stress falls on "ben". In IPA it is /ˈbɛndɪŋ/.

What is another word for bending?

Close synonyms include bend, deflection, deflexion. 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 bending a common word?

bending 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.

What rhymes with bending?

1 word rhymes with bending. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.