hatching

Other forms of hatching

plural

hatchings·

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 hatching

What does hatching mean?

hatching means "the production of young from an egg". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hatching?

hatching has 2 syllables: hat-ching. The stress falls on "hat". In IPA it is /ˈhætʃɪŋ/.

What is another word for hatching?

Close synonyms include hatch, hatch, crosshatch, hachure. 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 hatching a common word?

hatching 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.