plumbago

Other forms of plumbago

plural

plumbagoes·

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 plumbago

What does plumbago mean?

plumbago means "used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in plumbago?

plumbago has 3 syllables: plum-ba-go. The stress falls on "plum".

What is another word for plumbago?

Close synonyms include graphite, black lead. 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 plumbago a common word?

plumbago 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.