wainscoting

1. 1.

   a wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively)

   Synonymswainscotting

   Broaderwall
2. 2.

   wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room

   Synonymswainscotwainscotting

   Broaderpanel

Other forms of wainscoting

plural

wainscotings·

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 wainscoting

What does wainscoting mean?

wainscoting means "a wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wainscoting?

wainscoting has 3 syllables: wain-sco-ting. The stress falls on "wain".

What is another word for wainscoting?

Close synonyms include wainscotting, wainscot, wainscotting. 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 wainscoting a common word?

wainscoting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.