drinking

Other forms of drinking

plural

drinkings·

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 drinking

What does drinking mean?

drinking means "the act of consuming liquids". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drinking?

drinking has 2 syllables: drin-king. The stress falls on "drin". In IPA it is /ˈdɹɪŋkɪŋ/.

What is another word for drinking?

Close synonyms include imbibing, imbibition, drink, boozing, drunkenness. 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 drinking a common word?

drinking 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.