wording

Other forms of wording

plural

wordings·

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 wording

What does wording mean?

wording means "the manner in which something is expressed in words".

How many syllables are in wording?

wording has 2 syllables: wor-ding. The stress falls on "wor". In IPA it is /ˈwɝdɪŋ/.

What is another word for wording?

Close synonyms include diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words, verbiage. 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 wording a common word?

wording 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.