eating

Other forms of eating

plural

eatings·

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 eating

What does eating mean?

eating means "the act of consuming food".

How many syllables are in eating?

eating has 2 syllables: ea-ting. The stress falls on "ea". In IPA it is /ˈitɪŋ/.

What is another word for eating?

Close synonyms include feeding. 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 eating a common word?

eating 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.

What rhymes with eating?

1 word rhymes with eating. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.