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say it: JIP-suhm
gypsum is a noun meaning "a common white or colorless mineral (hydrated calcium sulphate) used to make cements and plasters (especially plaster of Paris)". It is pronounced /ˈdʒɪpsəm/ — JIP-suhm. It carries one recorded sense.
a common white or colorless mineral (hydrated calcium sulphate) used to make cements and plasters (especially plaster of Paris)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gypsum come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.