spending

Other forms of spending

plural

spendings·

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 spending

What does spending mean?

spending means "the act of spending or disbursing money". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spending?

spending has 2 syllables: spen-ding. The stress falls on "spen". In IPA it is /ˈspɛndɪŋ/.

What is another word for spending?

Close synonyms include disbursement, disbursal, outlay, outgo, expenditure. 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 spending a common word?

spending is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 spending?

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