offering

Other forms of offering

plural

offerings·

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 offering

What does offering mean?

offering means "something offered (as a proposal or bid)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in offering?

offering has 3 syllables: of-fe-ring. The stress falls on "of". In IPA it is /ˈɔfɚɪŋ/.

What is another word for offering?

Close synonyms include offer, offer, oblation. 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 offering a common word?

offering is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.