chewing

Other forms of chewing

plural

chewings·

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 chewing

What does chewing mean?

chewing means "biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow".

How many syllables are in chewing?

chewing has 2 syllables: che-wing. The stress falls on "che". In IPA it is /ˈtʃuɪŋ/.

What is another word for chewing?

Close synonyms include chew, mastication, manduction. 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 chewing a common word?

chewing 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.