colouring

Other forms of colouring

plural

colourings·

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 colouring

What does colouring mean?

colouring 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 colouring?

colouring has 3 syllables: col-ou-ring. The stress falls on "col". In IPA it is /ˈkʌlɚˌɹɪŋ/.

What is another word for colouring?

Close synonyms include coloring, 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 colouring a common word?

colouring is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 colouring?

3 words rhyme with colouring. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.