swelling

Other forms of swelling

plural

swellings·

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 swelling

What does swelling mean?

swelling means "an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in swelling?

swelling has 2 syllables: swel-ling. The stress falls on "swel". In IPA it is /ˈswɛlɪŋ/.

What is another word for swelling?

Close synonyms include puffiness, lump, bulge, bump, hump. 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 swelling a common word?

swelling 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.