plumpness

Questions about plumpness

What does plumpness mean?

plumpness means "the bodily property of being well rounded".

How many syllables are in plumpness?

plumpness has 2 syllables and divides as plump-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for plumpness?

Close synonyms include embonpoint, roundness. 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 plumpness a common word?

plumpness 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.