pottery

Other forms of pottery

plural

potteries·

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 pottery

What does pottery mean?

pottery means "ceramic ware made from clay and baked in a kiln". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pottery?

pottery has 3 syllables: pot-te-ry. The stress falls on "pot". In IPA it is /ˈpɑtɚi/.

What is another word for pottery?

Close synonyms include clayware. 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 pottery a common word?

pottery 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.