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say it: FIL-ing
filling is a noun meaning "any material that fills a space or container". It is pronounced /ˈfɪlɪŋ/ — FIL-ing. It carries 6 recorded senses.
a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.
(dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth
“when he yawned I could see the gold fillings in his teeth”
“an informal British term for `filling' is `stopping'”
dentistry
the act of filling something
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for filling come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.