supplying

Other forms of supplying

plural

supplyings·

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 supplying

What does supplying mean?

supplying means "the activity of supplying or providing something".

How many syllables are in supplying?

supplying has 3 syllables: sup-ply-ing. The stress falls on "ply". In IPA it is /səˈplaɪɪŋ/.

What is another word for supplying?

Close synonyms include provision, supply. 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 supplying a common word?

supplying 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.