cutlery

Other forms of cutlery

plural

cutleries·

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 cutlery

What does cutlery mean?

cutlery means "a cutting implement; a tool for cutting". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cutlery?

cutlery has 3 syllables: cut-le-ry. The stress falls on "cut". In IPA it is /ˈkʌtlɚi/.

What is another word for cutlery?

Close synonyms include cutter, cutting tool, eating utensil. 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 cutlery a common word?

cutlery is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.