shedding

Other forms of shedding

plural

sheddings·

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 shedding

What does shedding mean?

shedding means "the process whereby something is shed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shedding?

shedding has 2 syllables: shed-ding. The stress falls on "shed". In IPA it is /ˈʃɛdɪŋ/.

What is another word for shedding?

Close synonyms include sloughing, desquamation, peeling. 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 shedding a common word?

shedding 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.