gelatin

Other forms of gelatin

plural

gelatins·

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 gelatin

What does gelatin mean?

gelatin means "a colorless water-soluble glutinous protein obtained from animal tissues such as bone and skin". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gelatin?

gelatin has 3 syllables: gel-a-tin. The stress falls on "gel". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɛlətən/.

What is another word for gelatin?

Close synonyms include gelatine, jelly, gel. 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 gelatin a common word?

gelatin 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.