voting

Other forms of voting

plural

votings·

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 voting

What does voting mean?

voting means "a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative".

How many syllables are in voting?

voting has 2 syllables: vo-ting. The stress falls on "vo". In IPA it is /ˈvoʊtɪŋ/.

What is another word for voting?

Close synonyms include vote, ballot, balloting. 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 voting a common word?

voting is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.