diggings

Other forms of diggings

plural

diggingses·

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 diggings

What does diggings mean?

diggings means "an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in diggings?

diggings has 2 syllables: dig-gings. The stress falls on "dig".

What is another word for diggings?

Close synonyms include digs, digs, domiciliation, lodgings, pad. 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 diggings a common word?

diggings 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.