lacquer

Other forms of lacquer

plural

lacquers·

past tense

lacquered·

present participle

lacquering·

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 lacquer

What does lacquer mean?

lacquer means "a black resinous substance obtained from certain trees and used as a natural varnish". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lacquer?

lacquer has 2 syllables: lacq-uer. The stress falls on "lacq". In IPA it is /ˈlækɚ/.

Is lacquer a common word?

lacquer 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.