creosote

Other forms of creosote

plural

creosotes·

past tense

creosoted·

present participle

creosoting·

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 creosote

What does creosote mean?

creosote means "a colorless or yellowish oily liquid obtained by distillation of wood tar; used as an antiseptic". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in creosote?

creosote has 3 syllables: cre-o-sote. The stress falls on "cre". In IPA it is /ˈkɹiəˌsoʊt/.

What is another word for creosote?

Close synonyms include coal-tar creosote. 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 creosote a common word?

creosote 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.