decolor

Other forms of decolor

past tense

decolorred·

present participle

decolorring·

third person

decolors·

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 decolor

What does decolor mean?

decolor means "remove color from".

How many syllables are in decolor?

decolor has 3 syllables and divides as de-co-lor 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 decolor?

Close synonyms include bleach, bleach out, decolour, decolorize, decolourize. 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 decolor a common word?

decolor is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.