showing

Other forms of showing

plural

showings·

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 showing

What does showing mean?

showing means "the display of a motion picture". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in showing?

showing has 2 syllables: sho-wing. The stress falls on "sho". In IPA it is /ˈʃoʊɪŋ/.

What is another word for showing?

Close synonyms include screening, viewing, display, exhibit. 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 showing a common word?

showing 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.