sacking

Other forms of sacking

plural

sackings·

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 sacking

What does sacking mean?

sacking means "coarse fabric used for bags or sacks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sacking?

sacking has 2 syllables: sac-king. The stress falls on "sac". In IPA it is /ˈsækɪŋ/.

What is another word for sacking?

Close synonyms include bagging, dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing. 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 sacking a common word?

sacking is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 sacking?

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