wedding: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 13 letter points · starts with W · ends with G
Meaning of wedding
noun
A marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.
Example: Her announcement was quite a surprise, coming a month after she published the words "I hate weddings with a passion and a fury I can only partially explain rationally."
- idiomatic
The joining of two or more parts.
Example: The wedding of our three companies took place last week.
Listed forms: weddings.
Source: Wiktionary — wedding.
verb
- form-of, gerund, participle, present
present participle and gerund of wed
Base or related entry: wed.
Source: Wiktionary — wedding.
verb
- humorous, intransitive
To participate in a wedding.
Listed forms: weddings, weddinging, weddinged.
Source: Wiktionary — wedding.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for wedding.
noun
the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed
- wedding ceremony
- nuptials
- hymeneals
noun
the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony
- marriage
- marriage ceremony
noun
a party of people at a wedding
- wedding party
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is wedding in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of wedding
W(4) + E(1) + D(2) + D(2) + I(1) + N(1) + G(2) = 13 points.
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Anagrams of wedding
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from wedding
45 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in wedding. Showing up to 24, longest first.