enamel

1. 1.

   coat, inlay, or surface with enamel

   Broaderdecorate

   handicraft

Other forms of enamel

plural

enamels·

past tense or participle

enamelled

present participle

enamelling

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 enamel

What does enamel mean?

enamel means "hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enamel?

enamel has 3 syllables: e-nam-el. The stress falls on "nam". In IPA it is /ɪˈnæməl/.

What is another word for enamel?

Close synonyms include tooth enamel. 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 enamel a common word?

enamel 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.