founding

Other forms of founding

plural

foundings·

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 founding

What does founding mean?

founding means "the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new".

How many syllables are in founding?

founding has 2 syllables: foun-ding. The stress falls on "foun". In IPA it is /ˈfaʊndɪŋ/.

What is another word for founding?

Close synonyms include initiation, foundation, institution, origination, creation. 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 founding a common word?

founding is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 founding?

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