paving

Other forms of paving

plural

pavings·

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 paving

What does paving mean?

paving means "material used to pave an area". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in paving?

paving has 2 syllables: pa-ving. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /ˈpeɪvɪŋ/.

What is another word for paving?

Close synonyms include pavement, paving material, pavement, pavage. 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 paving a common word?

paving is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.