planning

Other forms of planning

plural

plannings·

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 planning

What does planning mean?

planning means "an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in planning?

planning has 2 syllables: plan-ning. The stress falls on "plan". In IPA it is /ˈplænɪŋ/.

What is another word for planning?

Close synonyms include preparation, provision. 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 planning a common word?

planning is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.