housing

Other forms of housing

plural

housings·

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 housing

What does housing mean?

housing means "structures collectively in which people are housed". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in housing?

housing has 2 syllables: hou-sing. The stress falls on "hou". In IPA it is /ˈhaʊzɪŋ/.

What is another word for housing?

Close synonyms include lodging, living accommodations, caparison, trapping. 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 housing a common word?

housing is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 housing?

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