parcelling

Other forms of parcelling

plural

parcellings·

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 parcelling

What does parcelling mean?

parcelling means "the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan".

How many syllables are in parcelling?

parcelling has 3 syllables: par-cel-ling. The stress falls on "par".

What is another word for parcelling?

Close synonyms include allotment, apportionment, apportioning, allocation, parceling. 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 parcelling a common word?

parcelling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.