potsherd

1. 1.

   a shard of pottery

   Broadershard

Other forms of potsherd

plural

potsherds·

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 potsherd

What does potsherd mean?

potsherd means "a shard of pottery".

How many syllables are in potsherd?

potsherd has 2 syllables: pot-sherd. The stress falls on "pot".

Is potsherd a common word?

potsherd 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.