parchment

Questions about parchment

What does parchment mean?

parchment means "a superior paper resembling sheepskin". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in parchment?

parchment has 2 syllables: parch-ment. The stress falls on "parch". In IPA it is /ˈpɑɹtʃmənt/.

What is another word for parchment?

Close synonyms include sheepskin, lambskin. 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 parchment a common word?

parchment is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.