printing

Other forms of printing

plural

printings·

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 printing

What does printing mean?

printing means "text handwritten in the style of printed matter". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in printing?

printing has 2 syllables: prin-ting. The stress falls on "prin". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɪntɪŋ/.

What is another word for printing?

Close synonyms include printing process, impression. 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 printing a common word?

printing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 printing?

3 words rhyme with printing. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.