taking

Other forms of taking

plural

takings·

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 taking

What does taking mean?

taking means "the act of someone who picks up or takes something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in taking?

taking has 2 syllables: ta-king. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˈteɪkɪŋ/.

What is another word for taking?

Close synonyms include pickings, fetching, winning. 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 taking a common word?

taking is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 taking?

4 words rhyme with taking. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.