pacing

Other forms of pacing

plural

pacings·

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 pacing

What does pacing mean?

pacing means "(music) the speed at which a composition is to be played". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pacing?

pacing has 2 syllables: pa-cing. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪsɪŋ/.

What is another word for pacing?

Close synonyms include tempo. 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 pacing a common word?

pacing 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.