tasting

Other forms of tasting

plural

tastings·

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 tasting

What does tasting mean?

tasting means "a small amount (especially of food or wine)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tasting?

tasting has 2 syllables: ta-sting. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /ˈteɪstɪŋ/.

What is another word for tasting?

Close synonyms include taste, savoring, savouring, relishing, degustation. 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 tasting a common word?

tasting 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.