mending

Other forms of mending

plural

mendings·

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 mending

What does mending mean?

mending means "garments that must be repaired". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mending?

mending has 2 syllables: men-ding. The stress falls on "men". In IPA it is /ˈmɛndɪŋ/.

What is another word for mending?

Close synonyms include repair, fix, fixing, fixture, mend. 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 mending a common word?

mending 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.