building

Other forms of building

plural

buildings·

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 building

What does building mean?

building means "a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in building?

building has 2 syllables: buil-ding. The stress falls on "buil". In IPA it is /ˈbɪldɪŋ/.

What is another word for building?

Close synonyms include edifice, construction, construction. 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 building a common word?

building is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 building?

2 words rhyme with building. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.