slating

Other forms of slating

plural

slatings·

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 slating

What does slating mean?

slating means "thin layers of rock used for roofing". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in slating?

slating has 2 syllables: sla-ting. The stress falls on "sla". In IPA it is /ˈsleɪtɪŋ/.

What is another word for slating?

Close synonyms include slate. 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 slating a common word?

slating is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 slating?

1 word rhymes with slating. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.