selling

Other forms of selling

plural

sellings·

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 selling

What does selling mean?

selling means "the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money".

How many syllables are in selling?

selling has 2 syllables: sel-ling. The stress falls on "sel". In IPA it is /ˈsɛlɪŋ/.

What is another word for selling?

Close synonyms include merchandising, marketing. 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 selling a common word?

selling is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.