siding

Other forms of siding

plural

sidings·

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 siding

What does siding mean?

siding means "a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in siding?

siding has 2 syllables: si-ding. The stress falls on "si". In IPA it is /ˈsaɪdɪŋ/.

What is another word for siding?

Close synonyms include railroad siding, turnout, sidetrack. 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 siding a common word?

siding 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.

What rhymes with siding?

3 words rhyme with siding. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.