fireclay

1. 1.

   a heat-resistant clay

   Broaderclay

Other forms of fireclay

plural

fireclays·

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 fireclay

What does fireclay mean?

fireclay means "a heat-resistant clay".

How many syllables are in fireclay?

fireclay has 3 syllables: fi-re-clay. The stress falls on "fi".

Is fireclay a common word?

fireclay 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.