kapok

Other forms of kapok

plural

kapoks·

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 kapok

What does kapok mean?

kapok means "a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kapok?

kapok has 2 syllables: ka-pok. The stress falls on "ka". In IPA it is /ˈkeɪpɑk/.

What is another word for kapok?

Close synonyms include silk cotton, vegetable silk, ceiba tree, silk-cotton tree, white silk-cotton tree. 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 kapok a common word?

kapok 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.