caoutchouc

Other forms of caoutchouc

plural

caoutchoucs·

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 caoutchouc

What does caoutchouc mean?

caoutchouc means "an elastic material obtained from the latex sap of trees (especially trees of the genera Hevea and Ficus) that can be vulcanized and finished into a variety of products".

How many syllables are in caoutchouc?

caoutchouc has 2 syllables and divides as caout-chouc under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for caoutchouc?

Close synonyms include rubber, natural rubber, India rubber, gum elastic. 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 caoutchouc a common word?

caoutchouc 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.