mooring

Other forms of mooring

plural

moorings·

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 mooring

What does mooring mean?

mooring means "a place where a craft can be made fast". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mooring?

mooring has 2 syllables: moor-ing. The stress falls on "moor". In IPA it is /ˈmʊɹɪŋ/.

What is another word for mooring?

Close synonyms include moorage, berth, slip, mooring line. 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 mooring a common word?

mooring is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.