mating

Other forms of mating

plural

matings·

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 mating

What does mating mean?

mating means "the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes".

How many syllables are in mating?

mating has 2 syllables: ma-ting. The stress falls on "ma". In IPA it is /ˈmeɪtɪŋ/.

What is another word for mating?

Close synonyms include coupling, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union. 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 mating a common word?

mating 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.