wrecking

Other forms of wrecking

plural

wreckings·

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 wrecking

What does wrecking mean?

wrecking means "the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wrecking?

wrecking has 2 syllables: wrec-king. The stress falls on "wrec". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛkɪŋ/.

What is another word for wrecking?

Close synonyms include razing, laying waste, ruin, ruining, ruination. 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 wrecking a common word?

wrecking is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.