heading

Other forms of heading

plural

headings·

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 heading

What does heading mean?

heading means "a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in heading?

heading has 2 syllables: head-ing. The stress falls on "head". In IPA it is /ˈhɛdɪŋ/.

What is another word for heading?

Close synonyms include header, head, bearing, aim, drift. 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 heading a common word?

heading is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 heading?

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