helping

Other forms of helping

plural

helpings·

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 helping

What does helping mean?

helping means "an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal".

How many syllables are in helping?

helping has 2 syllables: hel-ping. The stress falls on "hel". In IPA it is /ˈhɛlpɪŋ/.

What is another word for helping?

Close synonyms include portion, serving. 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 helping a common word?

helping 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.