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say it: OH-puhl
opal is a noun meaning "a translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color; some varieties are used as gemstones". It is pronounced /ˈoʊpəl/ — OH-puhl. It carries one recorded sense.
a translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color; some varieties are used as gemstones
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for opal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.