grading

Other forms of grading

plural

gradings·

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 grading

What does grading mean?

grading means "the act of arranging in a graduated series". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grading?

grading has 2 syllables: gra-ding. The stress falls on "gra". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹeɪdɪŋ/.

What is another word for grading?

Close synonyms include scaling, leveling, marking, scoring. 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 grading a common word?

grading is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 grading?

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