polychrome

Other forms of polychrome

plural

polychromes·

past tense

polychromed·

present participle

polychroming·

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 polychrome

What does polychrome mean?

polychrome means "a piece of work composed of or decorated in many colors". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in polychrome?

polychrome has 3 syllables: po-lych-rome. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /ˈpɑˌliˌkɹoʊm/.

What is another word for polychrome?

Close synonyms include polychromize, polychromise, polychromatic, polychromic. 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 polychrome a common word?

polychrome 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.

What rhymes with polychrome?

2 words rhyme with polychrome. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.