coloring

Other forms of coloring

plural

colorings·

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 coloring

What does coloring mean?

coloring means "a digestible substance used to give color to food". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coloring?

coloring has 3 syllables: col-o-ring. The stress falls on "col". In IPA it is /ˈkʌlɚɪŋ/.

What is another word for coloring?

Close synonyms include colouring, food coloring, food colouring, food color, food colour. 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 coloring a common word?

coloring is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.