ochre

1. 1.

   of a moderate orange-yellow color

   Synonymsocher

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of ochre

plural

ochres·

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 ochre

What does ochre mean?

ochre means "any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ochre?

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

What is another word for ochre?

Close synonyms include ocher, ocher, ocher. 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 ochre a common word?

ochre 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 ochre?

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