thawing

Other forms of thawing

plural

thawings·

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 thawing

What does thawing mean?

thawing means "the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thawing?

thawing has 2 syllables: tha-wing. The stress falls on "tha". In IPA it is /ˈθɔɪŋ/.

What is another word for thawing?

Close synonyms include thaw, melt, melting, thaw, warming. 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 thawing a common word?

thawing is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.