Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sliding

/ˈslaɪdɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English

Syllables: slid-ing
IPA: /ˈslaɪdɪŋ/

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of slide

noun

The motion of something that slides.

noun

skeleton (winter sport)

adj

Designed or able to slide.

Example Sentences

"Children were swinging and sliding in the playground."
"Her driver was new to the country; he mightn't be prepared for the leaping of the yellow water down dry arroyos, swift as the pouncings of a cat, or the snake-like slidings of tons of loosened rock and clay from the steep potreros […]"
"Our yard is just outside the sliding door."

Inflected Forms

slidings (plural)

Derived Forms

landsliding nonsliding slidingly slidingness

Phrases

forum sliding skeleton sliding sliding clamp sliding door sliding filament model sliding keel sliding pond sliding-rule

Rhymes With

providing riding hiding deciding guiding dividing residing siding presiding abiding gliding colliding

Questions

How do you pronounce sliding?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈslaɪdɪŋ/.
What does sliding mean?: present participle and gerund of slide

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