polyester

Other forms of polyester

plural

polyesters·

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 polyester

What does polyester mean?

polyester means "any of numerous synthetic resins; they are light and strong and weather resistant". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in polyester?

polyester has 4 syllables: po-ly-es-ter. The stress falls on "es". In IPA it is /ˌpɑˌliˈɛstɚ/.

Is polyester a common word?

polyester 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.

What rhymes with polyester?

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