sailing

Other forms of sailing

plural

sailings·

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 sailing

What does sailing mean?

sailing means "the work of a sailor". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sailing?

sailing has 2 syllables: sai-ling. The stress falls on "sai". In IPA it is /ˈseɪlɪŋ/.

What is another word for sailing?

Close synonyms include seafaring, navigation, glide, gliding, sailplaning. 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 sailing a common word?

sailing is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.