talking

Other forms of talking

plural

talkings·

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 talking

What does talking mean?

talking means "an exchange of ideas via conversation".

How many syllables are in talking?

talking has 2 syllables: tal-king. The stress falls on "tal". In IPA it is /ˈtɔkɪŋ/.

What is another word for talking?

Close synonyms include talk. 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 talking a common word?

talking 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.