cooling

Other forms of cooling

plural

coolings·

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 cooling

What does cooling mean?

cooling means "the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cooling?

cooling has 2 syllables: coo-ling. The stress falls on "coo". In IPA it is /ˈkulɪŋ/.

What is another word for cooling?

Close synonyms include chilling, temperature reduction, cooling system. 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 cooling a common word?

cooling 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.