orpiment

1. 1.

   a yellow mineral occurring in conjunction with realgar; an ore of arsenic

   Broadermineral

Other forms of orpiment

plural

orpiments·

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 orpiment

What does orpiment mean?

orpiment means "a yellow mineral occurring in conjunction with realgar; an ore of arsenic".

How many syllables are in orpiment?

orpiment has 3 syllables: or-pi-ment. The stress falls on "or". In IPA it is /ˈɔɹpəmənt/.

Is orpiment a common word?

orpiment 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.