lustre

Other forms of lustre

plural

lustra

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 lustre

What does lustre mean?

lustre means "a surface coating for ceramics or porcelain". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lustre?

lustre has 2 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ˈlʌstɚ/.

What is another word for lustre?

Close synonyms include luster, luster, brilliancy, splendor, splendour. 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 lustre a common word?

lustre 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.

What rhymes with lustre?

1 word rhymes with lustre. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.