spacing

1. 1.

   the time between occurrences of a repeating event

   “some women do not control the spacing of their children”

   Broaderrate
2. 2.

   the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them

   Synonymsspatial arrangement

   Broaderplacement

   Narroweropennessdistancedistributionconcentration

Other forms of spacing

plural

spacings·

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 spacing

What does spacing mean?

spacing means "the time between occurrences of a repeating event". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spacing?

spacing has 2 syllables: spa-cing. The stress falls on "spa". In IPA it is /ˈspeɪsɪŋ/.

What is another word for spacing?

Close synonyms include spatial arrangement. 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 spacing a common word?

spacing is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.