railing

Other forms of railing

plural

railings·

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 railing

What does railing mean?

railing means "a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in railing?

railing has 2 syllables: rai-ling. The stress falls on "rai". In IPA it is /ˈɹeɪlɪŋ/.

What is another word for railing?

Close synonyms include rail. 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 railing a common word?

railing 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.