orchil

Other forms of orchil

plural

orchils·

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 orchil

What does orchil mean?

orchil means "a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in orchil?

orchil has 2 syllables: or-chil. The stress falls on "or".

What is another word for orchil?

Close synonyms include archil, cudbear, archil. 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 orchil a common word?

orchil 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.