archil

Other forms of archil

plural

archils·

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 archil

What does archil mean?

archil means "a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in archil?

archil has 2 syllables: ar-chil. The stress falls on "ar".

What is another word for archil?

Close synonyms include orchil, cudbear, orchil. 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 archil a common word?

archil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.