apparel

Other forms of apparel

plural

apparels·

past tense

apparelled·

present participle

apparelling·

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 apparel

What does apparel mean?

apparel means "clothing in general". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in apparel?

apparel has 3 syllables: ap-par-el. The stress falls on "par". In IPA it is /əˈpæɹəl/.

What is another word for apparel?

Close synonyms include wearing apparel, dress, clothes, dress, clothe. 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 apparel a common word?

apparel 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.