blending

Other forms of blending

plural

blendings·

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 blending

What does blending mean?

blending means "the act of blending components together thoroughly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blending?

blending has 2 syllables: blen-ding. The stress falls on "blen". In IPA it is /ˈblɛndɪŋ/.

What is another word for blending?

Close synonyms include blend, shading. 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 blending a common word?

blending 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.