wadding

Questions about wadding

What does wadding mean?

wadding means "any material used especially to protect something".

How many syllables are in wadding?

wadding has 2 syllables and divides as wad-ding under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for wadding?

Close synonyms include packing material, packing. 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 wadding a common word?

wadding 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.