clearing

Other forms of clearing

plural

clearings·

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 clearing

What does clearing mean?

clearing means "a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clearing?

clearing has 2 syllables: clear-ing. The stress falls on "clear". In IPA it is /ˈklɪɹɪŋ/.

What is another word for clearing?

Close synonyms include glade, clarification. 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 clearing a common word?

clearing 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.