buckram

Other forms of buckram

plural

buckrams·

past tense

buckrammed·

present participle

buckramming·

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 buckram

What does buckram mean?

buckram means "a coarse cotton fabric stiffened with glue; used in bookbinding and to stiffen clothing". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in buckram?

buckram has 2 syllables: buc-kram. The stress falls on "buc".

What is another word for buckram?

Close synonyms include starchy, stiff. 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 buckram a common word?

buckram 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.