grouping

Other forms of grouping

plural

groupings·

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 grouping

What does grouping mean?

grouping means "any number of entities (members) considered as a unit". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grouping?

grouping has 2 syllables: grou-ping. The stress falls on "grou". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹupɪŋ/.

What is another word for grouping?

Close synonyms include group, pigeonholing. 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 grouping a common word?

grouping 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.