cleaning

Other forms of cleaning

plural

cleanings·

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 cleaning

What does cleaning mean?

cleaning means "the act of making something clean".

How many syllables are in cleaning?

cleaning has 2 syllables: clea-ning. The stress falls on "clea". In IPA it is /ˈklinɪŋ/.

What is another word for cleaning?

Close synonyms include cleansing, cleanup. 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 cleaning a common word?

cleaning 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 cleaning?

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