spotting

Other forms of spotting

plural

spottings·

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 spotting

What does spotting mean?

spotting means "the act of spotting or staining something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spotting?

spotting has 2 syllables: spot-ting. The stress falls on "spot". In IPA it is /ˈspɑtɪŋ/.

What is another word for spotting?

Close synonyms include staining, maculation, detection, catching, espial. 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 spotting a common word?

spotting 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.