mountaineering

Questions about mountaineering

What does mountaineering mean?

mountaineering means "the activity of climbing a mountain".

How many syllables are in mountaineering?

mountaineering has 4 syllables: moun-tai-neer-ing. The stress falls on "moun". In IPA it is /ˈmaʊntɪˌnɪɹɪŋ/.

What is another word for mountaineering?

Close synonyms include mountain climbing. 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 mountaineering a common word?

mountaineering 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.

What rhymes with mountaineering?

4 words rhyme with mountaineering. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.