boarding

Other forms of boarding

plural

boardings·

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 boarding

What does boarding mean?

boarding means "the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in boarding?

boarding has 2 syllables: boar-ding. The stress falls on "boar". In IPA it is /ˈbɔɹdɪŋ/.

What is another word for boarding?

Close synonyms include embarkation, embarkment. 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 boarding a common word?

boarding 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.

What rhymes with boarding?

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