schooling

Other forms of schooling

plural

schoolings·

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 schooling

What does schooling mean?

schooling means "the act of teaching at school". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in schooling?

schooling has 2 syllables: schoo-ling. The stress falls on "schoo". In IPA it is /ˈskulɪŋ/.

What is another word for schooling?

Close synonyms include school. 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 schooling a common word?

schooling 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.