dyestuff

Other forms of dyestuff

plural

dyestuffs·

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 dyestuff

What does dyestuff mean?

dyestuff means "a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair".

How many syllables are in dyestuff?

dyestuff has 2 syllables: dye-stuff. The stress falls on "dye". In IPA it is /ˈdaɪˌstʌf/.

What is another word for dyestuff?

Close synonyms include dye. 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 dyestuff a common word?

dyestuff 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.

What rhymes with dyestuff?

3 words rhyme with dyestuff. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.