oozing

Other forms of oozing

plural

oozings·

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 oozing

What does oozing mean?

oozing means "the process of seeping". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oozing?

oozing has 2 syllables: oo-zing. The stress falls on "oo". In IPA it is /ˈuzɪŋ/.

What is another word for oozing?

Close synonyms include seepage, ooze, oozy, seeping. 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 oozing a common word?

oozing 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.

What rhymes with oozing?

1 word rhymes with oozing. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.