melting

Other forms of melting

plural

meltings·

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 melting

What does melting mean?

melting means "the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in melting?

melting has 2 syllables: mel-ting. The stress falls on "mel". In IPA it is /ˈmɛltɪŋ/.

What is another word for melting?

Close synonyms include thaw, melt, thawing, liquescent. 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 melting a common word?

melting 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.