counseling

Other forms of counseling

plural

counselings·

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 counseling

What does counseling mean?

counseling means "something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action".

How many syllables are in counseling?

counseling has 3 syllables: coun-se-ling. The stress falls on "coun". In IPA it is /ˈkaʊnsəlɪŋ/.

What is another word for counseling?

Close synonyms include guidance, counsel, counselling, direction. 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 counseling a common word?

counseling 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.