muscat

Other forms of muscat

plural

muscats·

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 muscat

What does muscat mean?

muscat means "any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in muscat?

muscat has 2 syllables: mus-cat. The stress falls on "mus". In IPA it is /ˈmʌskæt/.

What is another word for muscat?

Close synonyms include muskat, Masqat, capital of Oman, muscatel, muscadel. 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 muscat a common word?

muscat 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.