icing

Other forms of icing

plural

icings·

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 icing

What does icing mean?

icing means "the formation of frost or ice on a surface". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in icing?

icing has 2 syllables: i-cing. The stress falls on "i". In IPA it is /ˈaɪsɪŋ/.

What is another word for icing?

Close synonyms include frost, frosting, ice, icing the puck. 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 icing a common word?

icing 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.