sewing

Other forms of sewing

plural

sewings·

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 sewing

What does sewing mean?

sewing means "joining or attaching by stitches". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sewing?

sewing has 2 syllables: se-wing. The stress falls on "se". In IPA it is /ˈsoʊɪŋ/.

What is another word for sewing?

Close synonyms include stitching, stitchery. 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 sewing a common word?

sewing 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.