rubbing

Other forms of rubbing

plural

rubbings·

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 rubbing

What does rubbing mean?

rubbing means "the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rubbing?

rubbing has 2 syllables: rub-bing. The stress falls on "rub". In IPA it is /ˈɹʌbɪŋ/.

What is another word for rubbing?

Close synonyms include friction, friction, detrition. 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 rubbing a common word?

rubbing 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.