malmsey

1. 1.

   sweet Madeira wine

   BroaderMadeira

Other forms of malmsey

plural

malmseys·

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 malmsey

What does malmsey mean?

malmsey means "sweet Madeira wine".

How many syllables are in malmsey?

malmsey has 2 syllables: malm-sey. The stress falls on "malm".

Is malmsey a common word?

malmsey 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.