dancing

Other forms of dancing

plural

dancings·

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 dancing

What does dancing mean?

dancing means "taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music".

How many syllables are in dancing?

dancing has 2 syllables: dan-cing. The stress falls on "dan". In IPA it is /ˈdænsɪŋ/.

What is another word for dancing?

Close synonyms include dance, terpsichore, saltation. 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 dancing a common word?

dancing is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.