drywall

1. 1.

   a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses

   Synonymswallboarddry wall

   Broaderboard

   Narrowerbeaver boardfiberboardplasterboard

Other forms of drywall

plural

drywalls·

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 drywall

What does drywall mean?

drywall means "a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses".

How many syllables are in drywall?

drywall has 2 syllables: dry-wall. The stress falls on "dry". In IPA it is /ˈdɹaɪˌwɑl/.

What is another word for drywall?

Close synonyms include wallboard, dry wall. 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 drywall a common word?

drywall 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.