hiding

Other forms of hiding

plural

hidings·

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 hiding

What does hiding mean?

hiding means "the activity of keeping something secret". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hiding?

hiding has 2 syllables: hi-ding. The stress falls on "hi". In IPA it is /ˈhaɪdɪŋ/.

What is another word for hiding?

Close synonyms include concealment, concealing. 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 hiding a common word?

hiding 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.