clothing

Other forms of clothing

plural

clothings·

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 clothing

What does clothing mean?

clothing means "a covering designed to be worn on a person's body".

How many syllables are in clothing?

clothing has 2 syllables: clo-thing. The stress falls on "clo". In IPA it is /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/.

What is another word for clothing?

Close synonyms include article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment. 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 clothing a common word?

clothing 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.