emery

1. 1.

   a hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite; used as an abrasive (especially as a coating on paper)

   Broadermineral

Other forms of emery

plural

emeries·

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 emery

What does emery mean?

emery means "a hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite; used as an abrasive (especially as a coating on paper)".

How many syllables are in emery?

emery has 3 syllables: em-e-ry. The stress falls on "em". In IPA it is /ˈɛmɚi/.

Is emery a common word?

emery 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.