foodstuff

Other forms of foodstuff

plural

foodstuffs·

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 foodstuff

What does foodstuff mean?

foodstuff means "(usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in foodstuff?

foodstuff has 2 syllables: food-stuff. The stress falls on "food". In IPA it is /ˈfudˌstʌf/.

What is another word for foodstuff?

Close synonyms include grocery, food product. 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 foodstuff a common word?

foodstuff 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 foodstuff?

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