oleomargarine

Questions about oleomargarine

What does oleomargarine mean?

oleomargarine means "a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter".

How many syllables are in oleomargarine?

oleomargarine has 6 syllables and divides as o-le-o-mar-ga-rine under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for oleomargarine?

Close synonyms include margarine, margarin, oleo, 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 oleomargarine a common word?

oleomargarine 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.