hawking

Other forms of hawking

plural

hawkings·

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 hawking

What does hawking mean?

hawking means "English theoretical physicist (born in 1942)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hawking?

hawking has 2 syllables: haw-king. The stress falls on "haw". In IPA it is /ˈhɔkɪŋ/.

What is another word for hawking?

Close synonyms include Stephen Hawking, Stephen William Hawking, vending, peddling, vendition. 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 hawking a common word?

hawking 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.