cladding

Questions about cladding

What does cladding mean?

cladding means "a protective covering that protects the outside of a building".

How many syllables are in cladding?

cladding has 2 syllables and divides as clad-ding under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cladding?

Close synonyms include facing. 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 cladding a common word?

cladding 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.