faulting

Other forms of faulting

plural

faultings·

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 faulting

What does faulting mean?

faulting means "(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other".

How many syllables are in faulting?

faulting has 2 syllables: faul-ting. The stress falls on "faul". In IPA it is /ˈfɔltɪŋ/.

What is another word for faulting?

Close synonyms include fault, geological fault, shift, fracture, break. 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 faulting a common word?

faulting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.