margarin

Other forms of margarin

plural

margarins·

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 margarin

What does margarin mean?

margarin means "a glyceryl ester of margaric acid". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in margarin?

margarin has 3 syllables: mar-ga-rin. The stress falls on "mar".

What is another word for margarin?

Close synonyms include glycerol trimargarate, margarine, oleo, oleomargarine, marge. 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 margarin a common word?

margarin 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.