playing

Other forms of playing

plural

playings·

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 playing

What does playing mean?

playing means "the act of playing a musical instrument". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in playing?

playing has 2 syllables: pla-ying. The stress falls on "pla". In IPA it is /ˈpleɪɪŋ/.

What is another word for playing?

Close synonyms include acting, playacting, performing. 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 playing a common word?

playing 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.

What rhymes with playing?

1 word rhymes with playing. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.