bluing

Questions about bluing

What does bluing mean?

bluing means "used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bluing?

bluing has 2 syllables: blu-ing. The stress falls on "blu". In IPA it is /ˈbluɪŋ/.

What is another word for bluing?

Close synonyms include blueing, blue, blueing. 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 bluing a common word?

bluing 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.

What rhymes with bluing?

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