lipstick

Other forms of lipstick

plural

lipsticks·

past tense

lipsticked·

present participle

lipsticking·

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 lipstick

What does lipstick mean?

lipstick means "form by tracing with lipstick". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lipstick?

lipstick has 2 syllables: lip-stick. The stress falls on "lip". In IPA it is /ˈlɪpˌstɪk/.

What is another word for lipstick?

Close synonyms include lip rouge. 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 lipstick a common word?

lipstick is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with lipstick?

10 words rhyme with lipstick. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.