isinglass

Other forms of isinglass

plural

isinglasses·

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 isinglass

What does isinglass mean?

isinglass means "any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity".

How many syllables are in isinglass?

isinglass has 3 syllables: i-sin-glass. The stress falls on "i".

What is another word for isinglass?

Close synonyms include mica. 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 isinglass a common word?

isinglass 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.