piloting

Other forms of piloting

plural

pilotings·

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 piloting

What does piloting mean?

piloting means "the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in piloting?

piloting has 3 syllables: pi-lo-ting. The stress falls on "pi". In IPA it is /ˈpaɪlətɪŋ/.

What is another word for piloting?

Close synonyms include navigation, pilotage, pilotage. 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 piloting a common word?

piloting 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.