paging

Other forms of paging

plural

pagings·

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 paging

What does paging mean?

paging means "calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in paging?

paging has 2 syllables: pa-ging. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪdʒɪŋ/.

What is another word for paging?

Close synonyms include pagination, folio, page number. 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 paging a common word?

paging 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.